Re: using secure ftp with a pipe ?

From: Konstantinos Peletidis (kpeletidis_at_dsl.pipex.spammers.must.go2jail.com)
Date: 06/24/04

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    Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:09:27 +0100

    On 23 Jun 2004 11:25:17 -0400
    David Magda <dmagda+trace040423@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:

    > surfunbear@yahoo.com (Larry) writes:
    >
    > > Some people in our group are having problems using sftp with a
    > > pipe. We used to do that with regular ftp I guess and have another
    > > process read from the pipe as the transfer was large and there was
    > > not allways enough disk space. I believe it was a file type
    > > pipe. Any thoughts on this on how to make it work or would you
    > > expect it to not work due to security etc ?
    >
    > Haven't tried it myself, but have you tried something along the lines
    > of:
    >
    > $ cat source.txt | ssh user@remote "cat - > destination.txt"
    >
    > work?

    Works fine here, with both text and binary files. 

    -- 
Konstantinos Peletidis
Electronic & Computer Engineer
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