At Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:46:49 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > Why not just do > > > > `the thing that generates standard out here` | ssh -q 192.168.122.2 dd of=somethin > > > > > > eg > > > > find . | ssh -q 192.168.122.2 dd of=find.out > > > > You don't need tar for anything. > > > alas the thing that generates the output creates 5 or 6 seperate > streams in sequence that generate 5 or 6 log files but i dont know in > advance the names of these logs. So the thing (program) does not write to stdout itself? It it does '5 or 6' fopen("<random>.log","w")s? Well, then you need to do: (mkdir temp && cd temp && thing && tar czvf - . | \ ssh -q 192.168.122.2 tar xvf -) && rm -rf temp And yes, the log files will be written to the local disk before being transfered. There is not really anyway around this, unless you were will / able to rewrite 'thing' to work differently. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/