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Any recommendation for MAC users? ssh/ftp client.

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Transmit.

It's an excellent piece of software. I've used it since I switched to MacOS over ten years ago.

 

Slightly off topic, it seems only portable app? How to properly install it?
Sorry I'm only few hours ago MAC user, so just very newbie on this thing.

 

Congratulations on coming over to the "dark side"!

I'm not sure what you mean by "portable app". Once you download the zip file from their website, unzip it and you will just have the program file (probably a DMG) called "Transmit". You can run it from anywhere but it's recommended to drag it to your "Applications" folder. Then just double-click it and run. If you want to keep it in the dock, right-click on its icon while it is running, go to Options, and then "Keep in Dock".

 

Thank you, I thought it's portable App since it's a single binary/executable file

 

Yeah, macOS installs can be a little confusing. You'll find most DMG files open with a little window that asks you to drag the application file out of the DMG disk image and into your Applications folder, then you can unmount the image.

Basically, the "executable" is stored in the Applications directory. Most of the time the "install" process just copies application settings to the /Users/username/Library/Preferences folder, or the /Users/username/Library/Application Settings folder.

So, you can "uninstall" applications on macOS by just deleting the application file in the Applications directory. Others will include uninstallers which will clean up their configuration files too, but they usually aren't very big, so you can leave them in place if you ever need to install the software again and your configuration settings will still be applied.

 

@rdan, sorry for the double-post, but one thing I forgot to mention was iTerm which is a great SSH client replacement.

It's free and open-source. Check out all the features here.

MacOS's built-in Terminal is not bad but iTerm is quite an upgrade.

 

It seems okay but It's hard to use it when I manage 20+ servers :|
Looking for xShell replacement from windows.

 

Try BitVise also, a good one for Windows

 

I think this is enough for me
Core Shell – Terminal to make SSH life easy

 

I love MobaXterm. Before i used ssh from windows cmd

 

I am using the same, like it alot

 

Filezille Pro on a Mac for me - I tried Transmit - wasn't keen on it at all - so dumped it