--On Thursday, December 14, 2000 5:14 PM -0500 Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, this is driving me crazy, I want to tar a bunch of dirs/files/etc and
> port it through ssh on linux.
>
> I tried tar -cvf - | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, if you actually know what you're doing and just had e-mail damage, I
apologize in advance for the basic nature of this message.
The above command does _nothing_. You're saying:
Run tar, create a new archive on stdout, and be verbose. Add no files to
the archive. Send the output to the ssh command, which will run a shell on
the remote box.
What I _think_ you meant to do was:
tar -cvf - myfile1 myfile2 myfile3 | ssh user@remotehost "cat >foo.tar"
You can use dd to get some buffering and improve performance, but you
shouldn't need it.
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Carson Gaspar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queen Trapped in a Butch Body
