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Date:      Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:35:36 +0200
From:      Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help with text-append over SSH ? - dd: unknown operand >>
Message-ID:  <200710131635.36589.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
In-Reply-To: <47109910.7040209@lvor.halvorsen.cc>
References:  <20071012143730.GC3881@kobe.laptop> <20071012235953.GB1554@amilo.cenkes.org> <47109910.7040209@lvor.halvorsen.cc>

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On Saturday 13 October 2007 12:08:16 Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> >>>> I want to append the contents of a local text file
> >>>
> >>> to the contents of
> >>>
> >>>> a remote text file, over SSH.
>
> Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > cat file1 | ssh user@host "dd -of file2"
>
> That will replace the contents of file2, not append it. Also it
> should be "dd of=file1". However, you can use "seek=n" to append,
> like this:
>
> cat file1 | ssh remote "dd of=file2 seek=n"
>
> ... where n is the length of file2

or better:
cat file1 | ssh remote "dd of=file2 conv=notrunc"

-- 
Mel



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