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    Can you tell us what this does? For example I have no idea what 'cron' has to do with copying file! Commented Oct 28, 2016 at 15:00
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    @aliqandil opt/widget etc/widget etc/cron.d/widget etc/init.d/widget are individual files to be included in the tar archive. The point was to illustrate why sometimes you need to get fancy. This series of commands streams the tar archive over an ssh connection and unarchives it on the other side. Thus no tar archive is ever written to disk. I use this sometimes to cherry pick files to copy in one command. Commented Oct 28, 2016 at 18:51
  • Ow! I taught the first '/' was the source path! (What is it?) So that was a silly question! Thanks. :) Commented Oct 28, 2016 at 21:01
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    Tar will chdir to "/" thus all the following paths are relative to "/". Commented Oct 29, 2016 at 14:27
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    This is awesome. Can confirm that this also works with Azure CLI's ssh extension docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/… Commented Feb 17, 2022 at 15:45