Ad hoc file transfer tooling

These kind of commands command are useful if you want it now and not any later time, unless you explicitly run the command. You wouldn’t be the first person to discover they have been running a random daemon draining their laptop battery for the past half a year.

The most commonly known is python3 -m http.server which is built-in, but there is also a Python library for an FTP server which is easier to setup compared to most FTP servers which interact with the system daemon mananger.

Install and directly run using Ubuntu:

ip -br a && sudo apt-get install -y python3-pyftpdlib && python3 -m pyftpdlib --write

Note: this does expose your current working directory with read/write access using the anonymous account on 0.0.0.0 with port 2121. It does also print the IP addresses that your interfaces listen on, because 0.0.0.0 is not useful when you want to remotely connect to the machine you’re running on.

The package is py3-pyftpdlib on Alpine

Do you have more interesting things like this? Let me know!