open remote file locally?

[Chris Carey]

On 3/20/07, Wade Preston Shearer <lists at wadeshearer.com> wrote:
>   Is it possible to open a file on remote server as if it were local?
> For example, you can SSH into a different box and then read the
> contents of a file with vi, but is there a way view the file in one
> step without SSH-ing into the remote box first? Can this be done with
> tunneling?
>
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If you just want to view a file in one step you can do:

ssh user at remote-server.com "cat /etc/hosts"

This works well if you have ssh keypairs. It will display the file and
return you to your local shell immediately.

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Chris Carey