Thanks. They are interesting links. In going through the links another question pop-up on my head.
Would it be possible to achieve following targets;
Method 1 - all steps to be performed manually
1) Create a tarball of a bundle of documents on a folder of local machine and a key of authentication to untar it simultaneously. The tarball will self-disintegrate on the THIRD attempt of decompressing by un-authenticated key
2) Create md5sum file of the tarball (This step can be omitted if the key on Step 1 can be created)
3) Send md5sum file and key of authentication to distant machine via SSH to a selected folder
4) Send the tarball to that selected folder separately (If the key on Step 1 can be created then Step 3 and 4 can be combined)
5) Checksum (optional)
6) Untar the tarball on that folder in the presence of key of authentication.
If YES how to make Step 1.
Method 2 - completing those actions on Method 1 automatically with ONE command line.
If YES, any suggestion how to proceed.
Any pointer or suggested List/Lists of posting other than SSH would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
B.R. Stephen
Nate Duehr wrote:
Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Nate,
Of course he could have also just piped tar though ssh too... into a tar on the opposite side. This works fine to move a few files too.
Interesting ......
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There's a number of ways it can be done, here's one example:
machineA$ tar cf - files | ssh machineB "tar xf -"
You may need to cd to the appropriate directory before the untar, of course, on the far side.
A quick google turned up this page, which seems to have a couple of neat tricks... like using two machines to ssh through... good if there's a firewall in the way, etc... hadn't thought about that one, but it'd work too.
http://www.unixtips.org/
I found this old LJ article in an old bookmark file here too...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6602
Have fun, it's a neat trick that you can think up all sorts of interesting uses for once you figure out that ssh makes for a decent machine to machine pipe.
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