\begin{Michael Lake}
> I have a few things echoed to the screen by .bashrc
> I can turn them off but there must be a way to ignore output of ssh before
> root runs the tar program.
then thats a bug in your .bashrc
several suggestions for your .bashrc:
only echo if bash is in "interactive" mode (don't know how you check
that off the top of my head. in tcsh you see if $prompt is defined)
only echo if stdout is a tty (test -t 1)
echo to stderr (echo foo >&2) instead
don't echo anything
the only way around it that i can tell is to put some marker in then
strip off everything before the marker:
ssh user@host 'echo __START-HERE__; tar cvf - /path' | \
sed '1,/^__START-HERE__$/d' | dd of=/dev/mt0
but thats bodgy. fix the real problem, otherwise rsync, etc won't work
either.
note that (GNU) tar can do "tar -f host:/path" directly, using
whatever your "rsh" command ends up running (hopefully ssh). see
tar.info and rmt(8)
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