On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:18:03PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:01, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> Can you explain why this doesn't work for me??
>
> tar -lcf - . | ssh -l root x.x.x.x "tar -xvpf - -C
> /some/area"
>
> tar: Bad Option: -xf.
> Usage: tar cmd [options] file1 ... filen
>
> Use tar -help
> and tar -xhelp
> to get a list of valid cmds and options.
>
> Use tar H=help
> to get a list of valid archive header formats.
>
> Use tar diffopts=help
> to get a list of valid diff options.
At a guess I'd say that the remote system is some strange OS that doesn't
recognise standard tar syntax. Do as it suggests ('tar -help') to find out
what its syntax is.
Also, I'd suggest adding the -B option (or it's equivalent) at the
receiving end.
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