On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 04:42:13PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am trying to do this:
> 
> cat file | sed s/this/that/g | scp - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/someplace/
> 
> As I want to replace some strings in file and copy it to another server in 
> a Makefile line. It looks like scp doesn't recognise - as "take input from 
> its stdin".
> 
> How can I do what I intend?

sed s/this/that/g file | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat > /home/someplace'

Cheers,
Gavin

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