{"id":444,"date":"2009-08-11T22:10:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raftaman.net\/?p=444"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:46:41","slug":"scp-from-stdin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"scp from stdin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately, there is no way to pipe data directly to scp simply because scp can’t read from stdin. But you can abuse ssh to achieve the same result<\/p>\n

\r\ntar cz a\/dir | ssh user@remotehost.com "cat >outfile.tar.gz"\r\n<\/pre>\n
You can even do some funny things like<\/p>\n
\r\ntar c \/data\/ | lzma -c -z |\\\r\ngpg --batch --force-mdc -ac -o - --passphrase-fd 3 -c 3< \/etc\/gpgpassphrase |\\\r\nssh user@remotehost.com "cat >\/data\/backup.tar.lzma.gpg"\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unfortunately, there is no way to pipe data directly to scp simply because scp can’t read from stdin. But you can abuse ssh to achieve the same result tar cz a\/dir | ssh user@remotehost.com "cat >outfile.tar.gz" You can even do some funny things like tar c \/data\/ | lzma -c -z |\\ gpg –batch –force-mdc -ac -o – –passphrase-fd 3… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,15],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bash","tag-ssh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}