Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:33:37 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar to a remote box Message-ID: <20020226143337.H49919@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020226132446.GF83827@ns2.wananchi.com>; from wash@wananchi.com on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:24:46PM %2B0300 References: <20020226132446.GF83827@ns2.wananchi.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:24:46PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > 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. You specify the 'f' option to tar, with a local filename. Of course tar wants to write to the local disk. Try this: $ tar czf - | ssh user@remote 'tar xzvf -' You'll get a listing of every file succesfully unpacked on the remote system. HTH, --Stijn -- ] Nothing safer than a 'cat /dev/wallet | grep $price > real-person; \ ] mv $thing-to-buy $my-case I'd prefer 'mv $thing-to-buy $my-case && cat /dev/wallet | \ grep $price > real-person -- Anonymous, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, in message <200108020628.IAA11775@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8e46xY3r/tLQmfWcRAjmHAJ9/d/mHJd1rjeW8rHxpitjS7+WjiQCeKqTF RwVvUWXIdYL/rC1uF+qnrUk= =RYiJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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