Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:35:36 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with text-append over SSH ? - dd: unknown operand >> Message-ID: <200710131635.36589.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <47109910.7040209@lvor.halvorsen.cc> References: <20071012143730.GC3881@kobe.laptop> <20071012235953.GB1554@amilo.cenkes.org> <47109910.7040209@lvor.halvorsen.cc>
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On Saturday 13 October 2007 12:08:16 Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > >>>> I want to append the contents of a local text file > >>> > >>> to the contents of > >>> > >>>> a remote text file, over SSH. > > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > cat file1 | ssh user@host "dd -of file2" > > That will replace the contents of file2, not append it. Also it > should be "dd of=file1". However, you can use "seek=n" to append, > like this: > > cat file1 | ssh remote "dd of=file2 seek=n" > > ... where n is the length of file2 or better: cat file1 | ssh remote "dd of=file2 conv=notrunc" -- Mel
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