Title: Kermit command line to fetch remote files through ssh
       Author: Solène
       Date: 15 May 2019
       Tags: kermit
       Description: 
       
       I previously wrote about Kermit for fetching remote files using a
       kermit
       script.  I found that it's possible to achieve the same with a single
       kermit
       command, without requiring a script file.
       
       Given I want to download files from my remote server from the path
       **/home/mirror/pub** and that I've setup a kermit server on the other
       part
       using inetd:
       
       File **/etc/inetd.conf**:
       
           7878 stream tcp nowait solene /usr/local/bin/kermit-sshsub
       kermit-sshsub
       
       I can make a ssh tunnel to it to reach it locally on port 7878 to
       download my files.
       
           kermit -I -j localhost:7878 -C "remote cd /home/mirror/pub","reget
       /recursive .",close,EXIT
       
       Some flags can be added to make it even faster, like `-v 31 -e 9042`. I
       insist
       on kermit because it's super reliable and there are no security issues
       if
       running behind a firewall and accessed through ssh.
       
       Fetching files can be stopped at any time, it supports very poor
       connection
       too, it's really reliable. You can also skip files, because sometimes
       you need
       some file first and you don't want to modify your script to fetch a
       specific
       file (this only works if you don't have too many files to get of course
       because
       you can skip them only one by one).