Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 11:35:38 +0300 From: ODHIAMBO Washington <wash@wananchi.it> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reverse tar Message-ID: <20030503083538.GC17027@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030502152753.GF94877@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030502151430.GB631@ns2.wananchi.com> <20030502152753.GF94877@dan.emsphone.com>
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* Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> [20030502 18:28]: wrote:
> In the last episode (May 02), ODHIAMBO Washington said:
> >
> > I would like to ssh to host B, cd some/path, tar some/path/directory/
> > and output the tarball locally to TARBALL.tgz
>
> Have you tried:
>
> ssh hostb "cd some/path ; tar czf - directory" > TARBALL.tgz
Hello Dan,
Thank you so much. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Do have a nice weekend!
Best regards,
Odhiambo Washington
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