Re: using secure ftp with a pipe ?

From: Larry (surfunbear_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/28/04

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    Date: 28 Jun 2004 14:03:33 -0700

    Thanks,
     I think we use the file kind of pipe rather than the command line type.
    One of our processes reads or writes to the file pipe
    and the sfpt must do the same. Not sure if it might work similiarly.

    Konstantinos Peletidis <kpeletidis@dsl.pipex.spammers.must.go2jail.com> wrote in message news:<20040624180927.253e61b2@wintermute.magic.net>...
    > 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.

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