Tom Van Looy wrote:
Oke, problem solved. But, why doesn't this flag get set implicitly when
using a command with ssh?
Because it's not 8bit-clean, the tty layer can change the data. It's
usually ok for text, but it messes up binary data so having it on all
the time would make ssh pipelines a lot less useful.
$ dd if=/dev/arandom of=/tmp/tmp1 bs=1k count=1k 2>/dev/null
$ ssh -t localhost "cat /tmp/tmp1" >/tmp/tmp2
Connection to localhost closed.
$ ls -l /tmp/tmp*
-rw-r--r-- 1 dtucker staff 1048576 Jul 2 07:49 /tmp/tmp1
-rw-r--r-- 1 dtucker staff 1067393 Jul 2 07:50 /tmp/tmp2
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