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tar czf - . | ssh destination "tar xz" To pipe all the contents of your current directory (including dotfiles) to the destination machine. Greetings from LSI-UPC!
Why not rsync?
tar czf - . | ssh destination "tar xz" To pipe all the contents of your current directory (including dotfiles) to the destination machine. Greetings from LSI-UPC!
I would change this to: tar czf - . | ssh destination "cd /remote/dir; tar xz"
tar czf - | ssh destination 'cd /remote/dir && tar xzf -'
Ummm, "apt-" isn't a "Unix trick..." It's specific to linux distros which use the "Aptitude" package manager.
Linux != Unix
find . -name somefile.txt -print
Then copy and paste the results manually into a cd command for example. I feel like there's a much better way somewhere.
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You need a -z to activate compression. But, nonetheless, please always use rsync when copying host to host.
rsync is slow if the data is not already on the destination. tar over ssh is fast, and tar over socketpipe is even faster but not encrypted. I'm not aware of any attributes that tar doesn't preserve.
Also, I find that if I'm going to copy the data once, I'm often going to copy it twice, or which to get a more up to date version of it at a later time. Rsync clearly wins in these cases.
Finally, from the compress flag on rsync: Note that this option typically achieves better compression ratios than can be achieved by using a compressing remote shell or a compressing transport because it takes advantage of the implicit information in the matching data blocks that are not explicitly sent over the connection.
* Read on 'ssh-keygen' to avoid typing passwords every time you ssh
I freaked out when I found out about the "screen" command several years back. "screen" starts a virtual screen that you can detach from with "ctrl-a d" and you can log out, login from a different machine/session and reattach with "screen -r". it has history so you can run long running commands and reattach 3 days later to continue from where you left off as if you had been logged in the whole time.
Yup! You might want to try tmux, though. I used screen for many years and switched over to tmux about 2 years ago, and have been really happy with it. It (tmux) is also maintained more regularly now; screen development seems to have stagnated. Either way, enjoy!
* Read on 'ssh-keygen' to avoid typing passwords every time you ssh He meant ssh-agent?
> SMB is better than NFS. More details would be nice.
I've found NFS to use much less cpu than SMB (on raspberry pis running XBMC at least)
And fwiw, if there's some sort of error with the mount, the terminal lets me know right away.
mv p1080.jpg folderx/
to move p1080100.jpg through p1080300.jpg to a new folder.
Still not available on bash or more common shells?