12 Aug
2010
12 Aug
'10
3:18 p.m.
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'
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