Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:17:37 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Juri Mianovich <juri_mian@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: help with text-append over SSH ? Message-ID: <200710121417.49147.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <561095.99967.qm@web45614.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <561095.99967.qm@web45614.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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On Friday 12 October 2007 01:49:04 Juri Mianovich wrote: > I have an account on a system where I cannot log in > over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands > remotely, over SSH. (I am in a jail of some sorts). > > I want to append the contents of a local text file to > the contents of a remote text file, over SSH. > > Normally, I would do this locally with: > > cat file1 >> file2 > > But again, file2 is remote, and I can't log in > there... I have access to the 'echo' command and the > 'dd' command (among others) on the remote host ... so > for instance, I can do things like this: > > ssh user@host rm -rf filename > > So, with all that in mind, how do I append the > contents of a local file to a remote file, over SSH, > using either 'echo' or 'dd' ? With echo or dd I don't know. With cat you can do it this way: cat file1 | ssh user@host "cat >> file2"
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