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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:21:51 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
Cc: "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com>,
	FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: find | cpio syntax [use scp]
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On 2002-03-28 00:58, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Scott M. Nolde wrote:
> > Greetings, Can anyone provide the syntax for remotely copying files
> > from a remote machine to another using find | cpio | ssh?  I'd like to
> > pipe the output over ssh to the local machine and store the file as a
> > gzip or tar.gz file archive.  Can anyone lend a hand?
>
> man scp
> (not that I've got it to work yet though, *grunts*!)

I customarily use ssh to copy files over ssh links:

    $ tar cvf - . | gzip -9c | ssh -T user@host 'mkdir foo ; cd foo ; gzip -cd | tar xf -'

The trick is to properly quote the ssh command, so that it's not executed
by the local shell :-)

Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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