On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:31, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?': > Perhaps that link wasn't as useful to you as I thought when I > transmitted it. Here are a couple of other examples. I think it requires > GNU tar. > > This compacts data recursively from /from/path and using gzip, pipes it > through ssh and extracts it into /to/path: > # tar -zcf - /from/path | ssh desktop.homelinux.com "tar -C /to/path > -xzf -"
Or, for non-GNU tar: tar cf - /from/path | gzip -c | ssh desktop.homelinux.com 'cd /to/path; gunzip -c | tar xf -' (Some non-gnu tars probably don't even need the 'f -' parts...) > And this just pipes through ssh and extracts using bunzip2 to /to/path > on remote machine > # cat file.tar.bz2 | ssh desktop.homelinux.com "tar -C /to/path -xjf -" Or for non-GNU tar without the unnecessarily spawned process: ssh desktop.homelinux.com 'cd /to/path; bunzip2 -c | tar xf -' < file.tar.bz2 (Each of my examples is meant to be a single line.) -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
