[NTLUG:Discuss] Using SCP (SSH?) in a pipe

[MadHat]

On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 12:10, Chris Cox wrote:
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
> >I think I saw it here...
> >
> >What I want to do is:
> >
> >    tar cvz filelist | scp user at backup:foo
> >
> >but there's some magic I'm missing.  Any clues?  I've gone blank.
> >
> How about:
> 
>     tar cvz filelist | ssh -l user backup 'cat >foo'
> 
> There might be a way to do this with scp as well.... ??? (would seem 
> weird to me though)

Also as a note, this example will compress before sending, so don't use
compression with SSH as it can cause longer transfer times when trying
to compress pre-compressed data.
 
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