[ale] syntax scp or rcp

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

>>>>> "Dow" == Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu> writes:

    Dow> What is the right syntax in a tcsh for retrieving a remote
    Dow> tar archive and piping it into a tar extract command?  This
    Dow> doesn't work:


    Dow> rcp walker:/d2/rep/temp.tar | tar xf -

Both rcp and scp are going to want a local path to write to.  You need
to use ssh and cat.


ssh walker cat /d2/rep/temp.tar | tar xf -


Or if you use zsh something like this:


tar ztvf <( scp hermes:tmp/src/rsync-2.5.6.tar.gz /dev/stdout )




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