On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:10:17PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > Is there a way to pipe input to a file on a remote host via scp? > > i.e. > > tar cz ~user | scp ??? user@remotehost.com:outfile.tgz I think not directly, but you could try: $ tar cz ~user | ssh user@remotehost.com 'umask 077 && cat >outfile.tgz' ofcourse umask is futile if the file allready exists:( -- groetjes, carel