![]() This is one step more than using my shortcut, but it is possible, and it’s more flexible than my shortcut because it works for any type of file. ![]() Tapping the Share icon next to it brings up the Share Sheet, from which I can choose Copy to put the URL on the clipboard. Here we see the encoded URL for the file. But selecting Manage brings up this window: Selecting Share from this menu gives me access to my Shellfish Image URL shortcut. With this configuration set, if you long-press on an item accessed via Shellfish in Files, a menu pops up. ![]() I just missed it entirely when configuring Shellfish to connect to my web host. ![]() This is very much like the system Transmit uses. When you configure a server in Secure Shellfish, you’re given an opportunity to set an initial directory (which I’ve obscured in the screenshot below) and to associate a website URL fragment with that directory. Reader Simon Gredal sent me an important correction last night. This also confirms Panic’s decision, because it now requires both $10 and the unpaid services of an amateur programmer to get a limited version of the Transmit’s functionality. Secure Shellfish is free to download, but the full app requires a $10 in-app purchase, which is what I paid for Transmit. 4 With this, I have a limited version of Transmit’s Copy URL. Shortcuts has a means of doing that and it knows how to encode the constructed URL before putting it on the clipboard. That means most of the URL is given, and only the filename (with extension) has to be extracted. It was easy to write because I save images to a particular folder (a new folder each year) on the server. Put it on the clipboard for later pasting. First we extract the file name, then the file extension.Įncode spaces and special characters that might be in the image name. The Shortcut Input appears twice in this text but with different properties selected each time. Here’s a shortcut meant to be called from the Share Sheet within Files while Shellfish is the active file provider: StepĪssemble the URL. Luckily, it’s pretty simple, at least for my most common use of Transmit’s Copy URL command, which is getting the URL of an image file on the web server so I can include it in a blog post. So if I want to use Shellfish-and I may be forced to use when iOS 14 rolls around 3-I have to fill in the gap with Shortcuts. You can long-press on a file to get at its name (clumsily, and without the file extension) via the Rename feature, but there’s nothing in the popup menu that lets you do what’s so easy to do in Transmit. Secure Shellfish, the latest app to try to replace Transmit on my devices, provides no such affordances. Having both at your fingertips is the kind of thoughtful detail that makes an app not merely useable but useful. You want the former if you’re doing some internal manipulation but the latter if you’re going to embed a link to that file in a web page. The Copy Path command gives you the standard Unix-style path to the file, and Copy URL translates that to your particular server configuration and also URL-encodes it. For example, one of my favorite features is that it knows how to handle different ways of addressing a file on a server. Transmit is a good-looking app, to be sure, but what makes it stand out-still-is how well it understands what the users of an SFTP app need to do. I suppose if they did, their developers would have run into the cost/benefit wall that Transmit did.Īnd when I talk about Transmit’s niceties, I’m not talking about its visual design. 1 But they aren’t as easy to configure and they don’t provide the niceties that Transmit does. It’s not as though there are no other SFTP apps for iOS. And no true replacements for it have sprung up, which I guess confirms the logic of Panic’s decision to stop development. Transmit still works, but it fits into the system less comfortably with each iOS update. Has it really been only two years since Panic announced the end of development for Transmit iOS? I guess it seems longer because the eventual death of Transmit has been weighing on my mind ever since. Next post Previous post Replacing a bit of Transmit
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