renaming pscp?

[Andrew McNabb]

I've noticed that Fedora renames pscp to pssh-pscp, and Ubuntu renames
all of the pssh tools because Putty has a tool called pscp. Does anyone
have thoughts about renaming pssh's pscp to something that doesn't
conflict? If you like the idea, what would be a good name?

Thanks.

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[Kevin Foster]

I would be fine with a different name.  I am probably not the one to come up with one ;-)

uscp - Umteen secure copy

mscp - Multiple Secure Copy

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[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:14:45AM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> I've noticed that Fedora renames pscp to pssh-pscp, and Ubuntu renames
> all of the pssh tools

JFTR: It's Debian who did the renaming from pssh to parallel-ssh, pscp
to parallel-scp, etc. Ubuntu just uses the Debian package of pssh.

> because Putty has a tool called pscp.

Ah, that's the reason for the renamings. I always wondered why the
package name is pssh, but the command is not.

> Does anyone have thoughts about renaming pssh's pscp to something
> that doesn't conflict? If you like the idea, what would be a good
> name?

parallel-ssh, parallel-scp as well as pssh-pscp are too annoying to
type. If a renaming is necessary, I'd go for something shorter like
parssh and parscp or so.

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[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:48:40PM -0600, Kevin Foster wrote:
> I would be fine with a different name. I am probably not the one to come up
> with one ;-)
>
> uscp - Umteen secure copy
> mscp - Multiple Secure Copy

At least mssh is already taken as well as mussh, but neither of them
seems to provide an scp command.

[Andrew McNabb]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:40:25AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
>
> JFTR: It's Debian who did the renaming from pssh to parallel-ssh, pscp
> to parallel-scp, etc. Ubuntu just uses the Debian package of pssh.

Thanks for the clarification. I was unaware that Debian and Ubuntu
packaged it differently.

> > because Putty has a tool called pscp.
>
> Ah, that's the reason for the renamings. I always wondered why the
> package name is pssh, but the command is not.

Yeah, I was confused, too.

> parallel-ssh, parallel-scp as well as pssh-pscp are too annoying to
> type. If a renaming is necessary, I'd go for something shorter like
> parssh and parscp or so.

I'd rather not rename anything other than the pscp command because I
think everyone is used to typing pssh (and there's no need to change
this command).

It sounds kind of lame, but maybe we could rename pscp to p-scp.
Another possibility would be to play on the name "pslurp" (which is the
pull form of parallel scp in the pssh kit).