(Actually I'd prefer to do that .. can't do rsync straight to that appliance and I would rather avoid setting up a buffer VM just for rsync)
What's the problem? Doesn't both scp and rsync use ssh when copying data from different device?
Is that true that if you tell average user to leave vi
It can't be: the average user doesn't use vi.
I think he meant average terminal user, although i would argue nano is more popular option.