On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:23:13PM +0200, I?aki Mart?nez wrote: > Then what i need it is something like this: > > server2$ tar cvz directories_to_tar | ssh user@server1 > file_in_server1.tgz > > but THIS NOT WORK!!!! :-( You need to make sure that the redirection happens on the remote host: tar cvz directories_to_tar | ssh user@server1 'cat > file_in_server1.tgz' Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]