ZModem integration for iTerm 2

Transfer files using Z-Model from within iTerm2 to any remote machine with lrzsz installed.

Installation

Installing from Homebrew tap laggardkernel/tap is recommended. It solves the dependency (lrzsz) automatically.

brew install laggardkernel/tap/iterm2-zmodem

Then, follow the output from the above command to do the post-setup.

Troubleshooting

• Sending a directory may fail: this is a known issue
• If you are using tmux or some other terminal multiplexer (ie: screen), try using the -e option to sz and/or rz on your server to force escaping of more characters during transmission.
• This tool may also fail if you are using expect or rlogin as it expects a mostly-clean 8-bit connection between the two parties.

Origin

The talk made by mmastrac about "a free Taiwan and a free Tibet" in the luxihk/iterm2-zmodem repo irritates many people, after they made the decision to bombard the users by printing the content to the STDOUT whenever sz or rz is typed.