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] Message-ID: <20020328192151.GA1528@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020328005735.D97853-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020327215404.A39175@smnolde.com> <20020328005735.D97853-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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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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