Quickest way to transfer files from your terminal

Do you often use the SCP command to transfer files from your computer to a remote server? This little code snippet may come to good use for you:

function push {
	if [[ $1 == "config" ]]; then
		if [[ $# == 1 ]]; then
			echo "Usage:   push config username hostname destinationpath optionalkeyfile"
			echo "Example: push config root 1.2.3.4 /root/ ~/Documents/SSHKeys/server.key"
		elif [[ $# == 2 ]] || [[ $# == 3 ]]; then
			echo "Too few arguments were specified, run 'push config' for help."
		elif [[ $# == 4 ]]; then
			PUSH_ISCONFIGURED=1
			PUSH_USERNAME=$2
			PUSH_HOST=$3
			PUSH_DESTINATION=$4
		elif [[ $# == 5 ]]; then
			PUSH_ISCONFIGURED=1
			PUSH_USERNAME=$2
			PUSH_HOST=$3
			PUSH_DESTINATION=$4
			PUSH_KEYFILE=$5
		fi
	elif [[ $# == 0 ]]; then
		if [[ $PUSH_ISCONFIGURED == 1 ]] && [[ ! -z $PUSH_KEYFILE ]]; then
			scp -ri $PUSH_KEYFILE . $PUSH_USERNAME@$PUSH_HOST:$PUSH_DESTINATION
		elif [[ $PUSH_ISCONFIGURED == 1 ]] && [[ -z $PUSH_KEYFILE ]]; then
			scp -r . $PUSH_USERNAME@$PUSH_HOST:$PUSH_DESTINATION
		elif [[ -z $PUSH_ISCONFIGURED ]]; then
			echo "Usage:   push config username hostname destinationpath optionalkeyfile"
			echo "Example: push config root 1.2.3.4 /root/ ~/Documents/SSHKeys/server.key"
		fi
	fi
}

All I have to do now to upload files is using push config to setup connection parameters, and push in my code directory to quickly push files.

A nice little time-saving code snippet if you use the scp command often.

You can put it in your ~/.zshrc file if you use ZSH, or in ~/.bashrc if you use Bash as your shell.