[CentOS] tar - ssh - standard out

[Les Mikesell]

Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a process that creates 'some data' and outputs this to standard
> out and i want to shift this data over ssh to a remote box without
> ever writing anything locally. I have been experimenting with tar to
> create the archive as the i dont know what the contents of 'some data'
> might be so i just need to capture it and output it on the other side.
> 
> I have been trying with
> 
> $ tar czf - . | ssh -q 192.168.122.2 "tar xzf -"
> 
> and this works fine to create an archive of this '.' directory and
> pipe that over to the other side but i want to take standard out
> so....
> 
> $ tar czf - `the thing that generates standard out here` | ssh -q
> 192.168.122.2 "tar xzf -"
> 
> Would that work or is there a better way to get this over to the other
> side? It needs to be a data stream though so things like scp and rsync
> are no good and i need to know what the command is on the remote side
> being run so that i can restrict this in the ssh public key on the
> remote side.
> 

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.

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    Les Mikesell
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