On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> Anyway, I'd love to hear from all of you what you think the most
> essential or just downright cool shell hacks are that you've run across.
A modification of this:
tar cf - . |ssh remotehost "cd /targ/dir; tar xf -"
Is to use netcat:
remote$ nc -l -p 1337 | tar xf -
local$ tar cf - . | nc remote 1337
Which can be much faster on older machines.
-J
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