On 2010-03-21 18:47, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Sigh. What exactly are you trying to *accomplish*????Just an example: I want to move a tarball to the machine, unpack it there then edit a file it in. I then want to make that file executable, run it, and transfer the output file back to my localhost.
Always starting from machine_a, where machine_b is the "original" remote host.
METHOD A. 1. ssh user@machine_b 2. scp -v user@machine_a:/some/tar/ball . 3. untar ... 4. chmod u+x 5. ./whatever 6. scp -v output.txt user@machine_a:/home/user/. 7. exit METHOD B. 1. scp -v /some/tar/ball user@machine_b:/home/user/. 2. ssh user@machine_b 3. untar ... 4. chmod u+x 5. ./whatever 6. exit 7. scp -v user@machine_b:/home/user/output.txt . -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower