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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users scp/untar in parallel issue tar : Unexpected EOF in archive Post 302566827 by m.d.ludwig on Friday 21st of October 2011 08:12:06 AM
Old 10-21-2011
I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish here, but as you say, this is a skeleton. But the first argument to ssh is a hostname, and scp needs a source and destination file(s), so did you mean:
Code:
sh -c "scp sourcefile destination; ssh hostname tar -xf  <tar> -C <location>" &

Also, why the call to a sh?

Can you provide a bit more than a skeleton?
 

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archive_read_new

ARCHIVE_READ_NEW(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 				       ARCHIVE_READ_NEW(3)

NAME

     archive_read_new -- functions for reading streaming archives

LIBRARY

     Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <archive.h>

     struct archive *
     archive_read_new(void);

DESCRIPTION

     Allocates and initializes a struct archive object suitable for reading from an archive.  NULL is returned on error.

     A complete description of the struct archive object can be found in the overview manual page for libarchive(3).

SEE ALSO

     tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_read_data(3), archive_read_filter(3), archive_read_format(3), archive_read_set_options(3), archive_util(3),
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