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Re: Piping file to scp



On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 07:26:08AM -0700, moseley@hank.org wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 09:47:37AM +0200, Neo wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 07:17
> 
> , moseley@hank.org wrote:
> > > I wanted to send an attachement directly from mutt to another machine.  
> > > Is there a way to pipe to scp?  So in mutt, select the attachement and 
> > > then:
> > > 
> > >   | scp other.host:some_file.name
> 
> > mutt ... | ssh uid@remotehost 'cat > /folder/archive.tar.gz'
> 
> Can someone explain that one?  That expects a file named 
> "uid@remotehost" if the ":" is missing, IIRC.

If you look closely, he's using ssh, not scp. 

In fact, scp can be mostly done with

  ssh uid@remotehost 'cat > /path/to/dest' < /path/to/source

This won't preserve perms and other meta-data, but the files at each end
will be the same.

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