Re: File transfer using ssh

[Nathan E Norman <nnorman@micromuse.com>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:18:58AM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote:
> >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander List <alex@babenberg.vc-graz.ac.at> writes:
> 
>  Alexander> You might also consider the tip posted before to use rsync
>  Alexander> (rsync -e ssh) to transfer entire directory structures,
> 
> or, since ssh will read from stdin, you can alter the old tar|tar
> trick to copy a directory tree:
> 
>  here$ cd srcdir
>  here$ tar cf - . | ssh there 'cd dstdir; tar xf -'

or even 

  here$ tar cf - . | ssh there tar xCf dstdir -

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