On 8/12/05, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 11:52, James B. Byrne wrote: > > > d. I cannot get tar to pipe find'ed files to the remote server over > > ssh. > > > > My current command line looks like this. > > > > find / -name "*.conf" | xargs -t tar -zcvf - | ssh \ Why not: $rsync -avzP -e ssh -n --exclude-from=somefile /path/to/your/source ip:/path/to/remote some file is: + *.conf - *.* path to source is your directory from where you wan to export - say /home path to remote is target directory where home is to be compied - say / Note: no ending "/" This will do a dry run on the screen. Once you are satisfied with the files you are getting remove -n from above and the job will be done. man rsync for details. Sorry this went away from what you were attempting. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux