trzsz
File transfer over SSH with progress and resume
trzsz is an open-source file transfer tool that works over SSH connections, supporting drag-and-drop transfers with progress bars. It is self-hosted alongside SSH servers to ease moving files to remote machines.
Key features
- File transfer over SSH
- Progress bars and resume
- Drag-and-drop support
- Cross-platform
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Active community (1.4k GitHub stars)
- Written in Python
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