Teleporter

Teleporter is a small utility in the vein of netcat to send files quickly from point A to point B. It is more convenient than netcat in that you don't have to run a separate command with file redirection for each file you wish to transfer.

Teleporter lets you pass the destination and a list of files you wish to send and it will create those files with the proper filenames on the receiving end. Each Teleporter binary can act as a client or a server so there's no need to move multiple software packages around.

Teleporter can recursively copy files as well, just pass a directory name and it will copy files all the way down.

Teleporter now does delta file transfers using the Blake3 hashing algorithm for files being overwritten.

Usage

``` Teleporter is a simple application for sending files from Point A to Point B

USAGE: teleporter [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS: -h, --help Prints help information -o, --overwrite Overwrite remote file -r, --recursive Recurse into directories on send -V, --version Prints version information

OPTIONS: -d, --dest Destination teleporter IP address [default: 127.0.0.1] -i, --input ... List of filepaths to files that will be teleportered [default: ] -p, --port Destination teleporter Port, or Port to listen on [default: 9001] ```

To start a teleporter in server (receiving) mode, just run: ./teleporter or cargo run Teleporter will default to listening on 0.0.0.0:9001 for incoming connections.

To start a teleporter in client (sending) mode, run: ./teleporter -d <destination IP> -i <file> [[file2] [file3] ...]

Teleporter will transfer files with their name information as well as their file permissions. Any file path information will be lost. All the received files will be written out in the CWD where the server side was started.

Installation

If you have Rust and Cargo installed, Teleporter can be quickly compiled and installed by running the following command: cargo install teleporter This will install Teleporter to ~/.cargo/bin/teleporter, which might need to be added to your shell's PATH variable.

Example output

Server (receiving from 2 different clients)

$ target/debug/teleporter Teleporter Server listening for connections on 0.0.0.0:9001 Receiving: ["testfile", "otherfile", "testfile2", "testfile3"] => Received file: testfile2 from: 127.0.0.1:41330 Receiving: ["testfile", "otherfile", "testfile3", "testfile4"] => Received file: testfile3 from: 127.0.0.1:41332 Receiving: ["testfile", "otherfile", "testfile4"] => Received file: testfile from: 127.0.0.1:41326 Receiving: ["otherfile", "testfile4", "testfile5"] => Received file: testfile5 from: 127.0.0.1:41336 Receiving: ["otherfile", "testfile4", "testfileB"] => Received file: testfile4 from: 127.0.0.1:41334 Receiving: ["otherfile", "testfileB"] => Received file: testfileB from: 127.0.0.1:41340 Receiving: ["otherfile", "testfileC"]

Client (sending)

``` $ target/debug/teleporter -i ./test/testfile ./test/testfile2 ./test/testfile3 ./test/testfile4 Teleporter Client Sending file 1/4: "testfile" => 2.000G of 2.000G (100.00%) done! Sending file 2/4: "testfile2" => 4.000M of 4.000M (100.00%) done! Sending file 3/4: "testfile3" => 4.000M of 4.000M (100.00%) done! Sending file 4/4: "testfile4" => 20.000M of 20.000M (100.00%) done!

```