From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 2 11:53:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C998B16A41F for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:53:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5107C43D45 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:53:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 11160 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2005 22:53:02 +1100 Received: from 203-217-68-186.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (203.217.68.186) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 Nov 2005 22:53:02 +1100 Message-ID: <4368A899.8080801@meijome.net> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 22:52:57 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Malcolm Kay References: <6.2.3.4.2.20051101232052.035a3040@cobalt.antimatter.net> <200511022115.40898.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200511022115.40898.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: user , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Glenn Dawson Subject: Re: tarring over ssh question - pulling from the source to tarfiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:53:03 -0000 Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 05:51 pm, Glenn Dawson wrote: > >>At 11:20 PM 11/1/2005, user wrote: >> >>> >>>Is that possible ? rsync/rdist are not available. I need to >>>do this over ssh and tar, as in the above examples. > > To "user" > > From the other end:- > % ssh whomever@othermachine tar -f /files | cat > /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar > > Redirection following ssh ( '|' and '>' ) occur at the local > end unless within quotes. ah, nice . thanks for the tip!:) > > Thus: > % ssh whomever@othermachine tar -f /files "|" cat ">" /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar > or: > % ssh whomever@othermachine "tar -f /files | cat > /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar" > would attempt to create the tar archive on the remote machine. > FWIW, | dd of=/usr/home/user/file_data2.tar should work as well instead of | cat > /usr/home/user/file_data2.tar Beto