ssh login and untar file

Question

I have two server (LOCAL) 192.168.1.1 and (REMOTE) 192.168.15.2

I want to untar a file from LOCAL (192.168.1.1) on REMOTE (192.168.15.2) via an SSH connection. What command can I use for that?

source path: /home/user/example.tar.gz

target path: /mnt/untar/extracted_folder

Answer 1

On the source system (LOCAL):

ssh -e none 192.168.15.2 'tar -xzf - -C /mnt/untar/' </home/user/example.tar.gz

Answer 2

Try this

ssh root@host1 "cd /dir/tocopy/ && tar -cf - ." | \
ssh root@host2 "cd /dir/tocopyto/ && tar -xf -"

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