Sshfs (Python)

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SSH Filesystem -- Async SSH/SFTP backend for fsspec

sshfs is an implementation of fsspec for the SFTP protocol using asyncssh.

Features

• A complete implementation of the fsspec protocol through SFTP
• Supports features outside of the SFTP (e.g server side copy through SSH command execution)
• Quite fast (compared to alternatives like paramiko)
• Builtin Channel Management
• Async! (thanks to asyncssh)

Projects with the same name

• sshfs (Python) - A Python client implementing fsspec. Based on asyncssh.
• SSHFS (FUSE) - A mounting client using FUSE

See also

• File system
• ssh
• sftp
• scp
• fsspec
• asyncssh

Favorite site

• sshfs · PyPI