Add support for scp(ssh) protocol about smart_open HOT 4 CLOSED

Yes, I can see how that is useful.

Python's fabric library has good support for this kind of thing; perhaps we could build on top of that?

Are you up for a pull request @val314159 ?

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Yeah, i hadn't thought of the exact mechanism, I figured the most dead simple way would be just to shell out a command.

fabric might be overkill, there's also this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scpclient
They're both front ends to the paramiko library.

Here's a one pager that might be even simpler:

• http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576810-copy-files-over-ssh-using-paramiko/

Let me play around and see what I can do - it should be fairly straightforward.

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Perfect -- the simpler the dependencies, the better!

Thanks for offering the exploration / help. Feel free to open a PR for review once you have something reviewable.

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This is a good idea and it would remove my need of issue #33 which I was about to implement.

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