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  • If I understand correctly, this gives ACCESS to the remote files, but does not COPY them? Commented Apr 20, 2016 at 2:46
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    @ToolmakerSteve you're perfectly right: it creates a fake directory (mount), so that you can use all your preferred tools to copy or move things: cp, mv, rm, rsync, unison... The scp command would only be able to copy files. Commented Oct 19, 2016 at 5:38
  • Note: [1] If get error Transport endpoint is not connected after ctrl+c cancel and retry, then simply do fusermount -u /home/user/test, ref: stackoverflow.com/a/29400722/1074998 [2] In case you already in the mount directory, you may need to cd .. and re-enter the directory after mount to see the files. Commented Jan 4, 2018 at 9:15
  • comment to myself: if umount doesn't work: umount -f Commented Oct 14, 2021 at 15:04
  • Adding "fuse" to a system is not something I would do without thinking trough. It's quiet a big dependency to just copy files from a server. Commented Mar 23, 2022 at 13:19