> What you need to do is run tar xf - (don't do it verbosely or it'll send the
> verbosity on the line) on remotehost.
No. The verbosity is sent to stderr, which is not redirected (so far:)
so it's safe to do.
> Try this:
>
> tar cf - |ssh remotehost tar xf -
It helps to tell tar which files you want. tar cf - something | ssh...
Otherwise you get the "refusing to create an empty archive" message.
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