OpenSSH will also do compression itself (using zlib's LZ algorighm): cat file | ssh -oCompression=yes u...@remote 'cat >file'
You can also set this option on when using sftp. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:51 PM, McKown, John <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote: <snip> > > gzip file | ssh u...@remote 'gunzip >file' > > when I run over a slow link. That compresses the source file, piping the > data, as it is being created, into ssh, which establishes a connection to > "remote" as "user", then pipes the data coming over into gunzip which write > it to "file", via redirection. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html