Hi, I've had a little netcat/tar piping script that I've found _very_ useful, which leads me to the question: Would it make sense to build network support directly into gnu tar? I think it would be really nice to say something like this...
on the destination host: tar xvf net://$HOST:$PORT and then, on the source host: tar cvf net://$HOST:$PORT [files ....] where 'x' would create a tar listener on the specified host:port and 'c' would cause data to be sent to the specified host:port. I haven't dug into the source yet, but ISTM that this should be fairly straightforward to add. comments and/or thoughts? cheers. b _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
