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That's a good illustration, but rsync, if available, would generally be preferred for that use case: rsync -az $bigdir host:$bigdir
by mturmon 13y ago
That's a good illustration, but rsync, if available, would generally be preferred for that use case:
rsync -az $bigdir host:$bigdir
- jfb 13y agoSure, of course. But I've used that tar|ssh combination so much that it was the first example of using the rsh-like stdout/in pairing that came to mind. As much as I bitch about Unix and POSIX and horrific shell brain damage, I still reach for crazy shell pipelines when I have data manipulation tasks up to some pretty large scale n.