On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:18, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > If you just want to > create an archive on the remote machine, then use: > > tar -cf - <some files> | ssh <remote machine> "tar -cf <archive>" You don't need tar on the other end - you just want to save the output to a file: tar -cf - . | ssh remote_machine 'cat >/path/to/file.tar' (sends the current directory) Don't forget to quote the command or the > redirection would happen locally. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
