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piping to cat would seem to be an an additional unneeded step

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Your proposed answer:

ssh -n REMOTEHOST 'tar zcvf - DIRTOCOPY' | localZip.tar.gz

did not work for me - the pipe to a file failed.

I did this instead and it worked:

ssh -n REMOTEHOST 'tar zcvf - DIRTOCOPY' | cat - > localZip.tar.gz

Pipe it to 'cat' via standard input and redirect the output to the file.

another solution would be to remove the "| cat -" and just send the SSH output directly to the tarball:

ssh -n REMOTEHOST 'tar zcvf - DIRTOCOPY' > localZip.tar.gz

Your proposed answer:

ssh -n REMOTEHOST 'tar zcvf - DIRTOCOPY' | localZip.tar.gz

did not work for me - the pipe to a file failed.

I did this instead and it worked:

ssh -n REMOTEHOST 'tar zcvf - DIRTOCOPY' | cat - > localZip.tar.gz

Pipe it to 'cat' via standard input and redirect the output to the file.

Your proposed answer:

ssh -n REMOTEHOST 'tar zcvf - DIRTOCOPY' | localZip.tar.gz

did not work for me - the pipe to a file failed.

I did this instead and it worked:

ssh -n REMOTEHOST 'tar zcvf - DIRTOCOPY' | cat - > localZip.tar.gz

Pipe it to 'cat' via standard input and redirect the output to the file.

another solution would be to remove the "| cat -" and just send the SSH output directly to the tarball:

ssh -n REMOTEHOST 'tar zcvf - DIRTOCOPY' > localZip.tar.gz

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answered Sep 30, 2013 at 12:57

Your proposed answer:

ssh -n REMOTEHOST 'tar zcvf - DIRTOCOPY' | localZip.tar.gz

did not work for me - the pipe to a file failed.

I did this instead and it worked:

ssh -n REMOTEHOST 'tar zcvf - DIRTOCOPY' | cat - > localZip.tar.gz

Pipe it to 'cat' via standard input and redirect the output to the file.