Re: tar via ssh?

[Dan]

Please! it doesn't work!
scp doesn't copy symlinks.
it's no good.

Dan.
At 10:54 PM 12/14/2000 -0800, Olof Liungman wrote:
>Hi, Dan!
>
>Sorry, too late in my part of the world to do some serious testing (or
>rather, I'm too tired) but I still think you should use scp. On the man page
>is says that the option -B   "selects batch mode (so you don't need to give
>password...)". Sounds like what you're looking for. I am not sure whether
>you can pipe input straight to scp , but why not? Read the man page
>carefully and you should find out.
>
>Let me know how you get on and I'll try something myself tomorrow.