That's typical of the workarounds suggested by those who thought that scp was unable to read from stdin. My question was really about why the functionality is undocumented, since scp actually *is* able to read from stdin,
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Thomas Charron <twaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure about scp, but you could use: > > ssh 192.168.1.2 "cat > destFile" > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM, John Abreau <j...@blu.org> wrote: >> Long ago, I was looking for a way to make scp read from stdin, and I >> had no luck. >> >> Earlier this afternoon, when I was tweaking my "validate-rsync" script to add >> support for scp, I discovered that when running the command >> >>> scp foo remote:/path/to/bar >> >> the remote end gets invoked as >> >>> scp -t /path/to/bar >> >> It seems that the scp process on the local machine establishes an ssh >> connection >> to the remote machine, and then invokes an scp process on the remote machine, >> and that remote scp process has to read from stdin. >> When I checked the scp man page, there was no mention of the -t >> option, nor is it >> listed in "scp --help". A google search for "scp -t" didn't locate any >> mention of >> the option, and another google search for "scp from stdin" yielded nothing >> but >> questions of how to do it followed by replies that "scp cannot read >> from stdin". >> >> Is this documented anywhere? I don't understand why the option would be >> left out of the man page. >> >> -- >> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix >> Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 >> PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > > > -- > -- Thomas -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
