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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 00:47:28 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
Cc: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>,
	"Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com>,
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Subject: Re: find | cpio syntax [use scp]
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On 2002-03-28 16:07, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:21:51PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >
> >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 :-)
>
> I wouldn't mind seeing a translation using cpio, since I understand it can preserve more attributes. I tried but...
>
> doesn't work:  find /var/tmp -print | cpio -oa | gzip -9c | ssh -T root@fait 'mkdir /tmp/foo ; cd /tmp/foo ; gzip | cpio -i' 

You missed the -cd options to the second gzip invocation (the one within
the quotes).

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

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