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Archive for January 12th, 2008

Pipe Directories Over SSH

My good friend Jayk showed me this nifty trick years ago for moving directories over ssh:

From a local directory to a remote directory:

tar -zcf - . | ssh name@host “tar -zvxf - -C <destination directory>”

From a remote directory to a local directory:

ssh name@host “tar -zcf - -C <source directory> .” | tar -zvxf -

This […]

This last week I’ve spent primarily putting out fires and fixing issues in TR. Seems that everyone has woken up from their eggnog and shopping induced comas and realized that we need to get a solid release out the door. A break was needed and the excitement and drive of the team is evident now […]