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  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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?

    • LostXOR@fedia.io
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      8 months ago

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