Good morning everyone and happy MonDEV! ☕
how is development going in this almost summer? Here we continue to write lines of code and look for new tools to talk about, even though soon your Monday newsletter will go on vacation for a few weeks, before coming back more charged than before!
But there’s still some time left, so why not come to today’s tool instead?
Today we talk about file transfer. How many times do we have to quickly pass one or more files from one PC to another?
What is the first method you use? USB stick? Cloud/Drive maybe? What’s App or Telegram Web?
Regardless of your tool of choice, this forces us to interrupt our workflow and the comfortable environment.
As I have said in other cases, it is not something transcendental, but if we can always do better, why not do it?
So I present to you Croc, today’s tool.
What is it about? Well, Croc is a tool that allows two computers to exchange files securely directly from the command line. It is available for any operating system, very lightweight, and very easy to use.
Once installed, in fact, you just need to launch the command croc ./file-name.ext from the terminal and croc will release a passphrase to you; by launching croc from any other pc and entering the same phrase, you can immediately download the file.
The download is available only once so the use of the passphrase is unique, and you can use the one generated or choose one yourself.
In this way, without leaving the terminal, you will have transferred your files from one pc to another in a few seconds.
As I said, perhaps it won’t revolutionize your way of working, but I find that small details are sometimes what makes the difference.
That being said, there are many more options that you can set, and I invite you to discover them directly on the tool’s repository.
I hope this little insight of the week can be interesting for you, as always let me know!
In the meantime, I just have to wish you a good week.
Happy Coding 0_1
