Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 05:38:59 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar to a remote box Message-ID: <20020226053859.M52727@blossom.cjclark.org> 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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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:24:46PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> 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??
Sure.
$ tar czf - path/to/archive | ssh remote-box -luser 'cat > file.tgz'
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