Putty on Mac OS Catalina
I am not able to install putty onto my Mac, any suggestions?
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15
What is it about PuTTY that you think is lacking in macOS Terminal?
Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
If you interest in PuTTY is for a GUI based sftp or scp utility, then look at CyberDuck
If you want a terminal emulator, then I strongly recommend macOS Terminal or iTerm2 <https://iterm2.com/>. I use Terminal and iTerm2 daily at work. Not just a little bit but constantly.
Here are just a few Terminal features:
- Profiles can store ssh connection information
- And the ssh connections can be very complex, including X11 tunneling, generic tunnels, Jump Hosts, running commands on the remote node, starting tmux or GNU screen sessions as you login, etc...
- There are actually 7 different ways you can bookmark ssh connection for Terminal (some of them are rather strange, but they work)
- You have 256 color support
- Various Copy & Paste tricks, all of which work seamlessly as Terminal is a native macOS app
- Font selection and size can be on a per profile basis
- Custom window sizes can be on a per profile basis
- You can create window groups so that when you launch Terminal, all the windows open, and any ssh connections associated with the profile for a window will be executed. You can reconnect to your collection of remote system by just launching Terminal.
- If you want to use sftp or scp, these are standard commands that come with macOS and are accessible via Terminal.
- Bracketed Paste Mode is supported (makes it possible to program a text editor (Vim, emacs, etc...) to turn off auto-indent when pasting text from the Terminal into the text editor, even if the text editor is running on a remote ssh connection).
Anyway, if you have questions about Terminal or iTerm2, ask and I'll try to answer your question.
