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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you can't tar to a pipe into ssh to a remote host and untar into an arbitrary location there, are you really using Unix?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I had to pipe dd through gzip over SSH recently to locally image a disk on a cloud server. That was fun.