Re: using secure ftp with a pipe ?

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: 24 Jun 2004 17:34:12 GMT

surfunbear@yahoo.com (Larry) writes:

>These are binary files, would you use binary files with cat ?

>My unix nutshell book mentiones end with EOF, so I'm thinking
>it's text processing only.

There's no "in-band" EOF (i.e., no EOF character in files), so cat
works fine for binary files. The EOF character has only meaning when
types on a tty.

>>
>> $ cat source.txt | ssh user@remote "cat - > destination.txt"

Of course, you need one fewer cat:

         $ < source.txt ssh user@remote "cat - > destination.txt"

Casper 

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