From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 5:24:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B6E37B421 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 05:24:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (FreeBSD)) id 16fhb4-0003Qt-00 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:24:46 +0300 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:24:46 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tar to a remote box Message-ID: <20020226132446.GF83827@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -- Aristotle X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: XFCE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 4:22PM up 18 days, 21:09, 1 user, load averages: 1.09, 1.14, 1.16 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello list, I know for sure that this is possible but I can't figure out how ;-? tar -cZf file.tgz | ssh remote_box -l username | put the file there I have a machine with limited disk space so I don't want to write the .tgz locally. possible?? mtia -Wash S y s t e m s A d m i n. -- Odhiambo Washington "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: 254 2 313985-9 Fax: 254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD." GSM: 254 72 743 223 GSM: 254 733 744 121 This sig is McQ! :-) ++ "When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical" -- Jon Carroll To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message