scp to pipe

From: hlaguy (hlaguy_at_excite.com)
Date: 09/11/04

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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 05:49:56 -0400 (EDT)

    How can scp write to a pipe that tar could then process?

    On i386 Gentoo Linux, using bash, the following works

    cat myfile.tar.gz | tar -xf

    however, this does not work

    scp myuser@mycomp:~/myfile.tar.gz | tar -xz

    gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
    tar: Child returned status 1
    tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

    nor does this

    tar -xz < scp myuser@mycomp:~/myfile.tar.gz

    I can't think of a way to tell scp to write to pipe instead of a named file. Any suggestions are welcome.

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