[CentOS] tar - ssh - standard out

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Thu Aug 12 13:18:31 UTC 2010


At Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:05:25 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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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