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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rsh & tar
Message-ID: <10363@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Jun 89 12:01:57 GMT
References: <19836@adm.BRL.MIL> <627@godot.psc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <627@godot.psc.edu> link@godot.UUCP (Tom Link) writes:
-how about:
-tar -cf - . | rsh drun "cat | tar xf -"
-the cat will receive the sdin from the rsh and echo thru the pipe.

??  On a reasonable system, "cat |" is just an inefficient no-op.