Michal Ludvig wrote: > Hi Jeff, > >> Is it possible for s3cmd to read from stdin and write to stdout? > > Yes, 'get' can be done to stdout, simply use 's3cmd get s3://... -' and > it'll print the file content to stdout. >
Okay, that's good to know. I could then pipe that directly to gunzip and then restore if needed. > However 'put' can't read from stdin (yet), because Amazon has to know > the input file size before upload and that's not known when reading from > stdin. Indeed, s3cmd could save the input stream to a temporary file (or > keep it in memory for small inputs) to find the size but that is not > implemented yet. > Ah, that makes sense. >> I do level dumps that I save on a local disk. Although I do not want to gzip >> them here (just makes retrieving a file from the dump that much slower) I do >> want to gzip -9 the file before I put it into my S3 bucket. >> >> Alternatively, can I use gzip as the encryption program, with the appropriate >> flags in the encrypt and decrypt commands? I tried this but got a python >> error--I may not have had the python syntax correct in the s3cfg file. > > It is probably possible to abuse --encrypt for compression, however I'll > better add --compress option for that, what do you think? ;-) > I think that sounds great! I look forward to trying this out. I've only just begun with s3cmd but it is working as advertised--so far much better than using s3rsync. Michal Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ S3tools-general mailing list S3tools-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/s3tools-general
