Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 22:52:57 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: user <user@dhp.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> Subject: Re: tarring over ssh question - pulling from the source to tarfiles Message-ID: <4368A899.8080801@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <200511022115.40898.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511020211270.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051101232052.035a3040@cobalt.antimatter.net> <200511022115.40898.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 05:51 pm, Glenn Dawson wrote: > >>At 11:20 PM 11/1/2005, user wrote: >> >>> >>>Is that possible ? rsync/rdist are not available. I need to >>>do this over ssh and tar, as in the above examples. > > To "user" > > From the other end:- > % ssh whomever@othermachine tar -f /files | cat > /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar > > Redirection following ssh ( '|' and '>' ) occur at the local > end unless within quotes. ah, nice . thanks for the tip!:) > > Thus: > % ssh whomever@othermachine tar -f /files "|" cat ">" /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar > or: > % ssh whomever@othermachine "tar -f /files | cat > /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar" > would attempt to create the tar archive on the remote machine. > FWIW, | dd of=/usr/home/user/file_data2.tar should work as well instead of | cat > /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar Beto
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