Robert Heller wrote, On 08/12/2010 09:18 AM:
At Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:05:25 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 08/12/2010 05:33 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Why do you need any other process involved to work with a data stream? If you want to collect it to a remote file, you can | ssh remotehost 'cat> path_to_file'. Just be sure to quote the redirection so it happens on the remote side.
At a guess it's the compression he is after. Over a slow link it could make a substantial difference.
Just add gzip (or bzip2) to the pipeline:
program | bzip2 | ssh -q remote-host 'bunzip2 | remote-program'
or even easier (though maybe not as good a compression as bzip would get if dealing with text only) program | ssh -C -q remote-host 'remote-program'