Re: [Bug-tar] network support built in to gtar..

[Joerg Schilling]

Doug McLaren <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 06:19:24PM -0400, Brent Verner wrote:
>
> | I've had a little netcat/tar piping script that I've found _very_ useful,
> | which leads me to the question: Would it make sense to build network support
> | directly into gnu tar?  I think it would be really nice to say something
> | like this...
>
> tar already has networking support installed.  It's been there for
> many many years.
>
>    tar -cvvvf host:/dev/tapedrive foo ...
>
> will use the tape drive on the remote host.  You can also use
> address@hidden instead of just host.

There is no 100% builtin netwoking support in GNU tar (it still needs
e.g. rsh to create the connection) and what GNU tar does is not what
the OP does like to see.

Jörg

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