Re: scp from stdin
Brian McGroarty wrote:
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>Is there a way to pipe input to a file on a remote host via scp?
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>i.e.
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>tar cz ~user | scp ??? user@remotehost.com:outfile.tgz
Not according to its manual page. Try this:
tar cz ~user | ssh user@remotehost.com "cat >outfile.tgz"
(You put the remote command in quotes so that its redirection doesn't get handled
by your local shell.)
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