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Old 12-18-2014
scp and uncompress on the file?
Hi,

Is there any way to do scp and uncompress on the fly? At the moment, I am doing scp and then running uncompress of the .Z files in the background.

I am wanting to be able to do scp and then have the uncompress the .Z file in the background.

Any advice much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Old 12-18-2014
You could use ssh instead of scp and pipe its output through the uncompress command.
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Old 12-18-2014
You could decompress it locally(in a pipe, no need to waste disk space) and pass it into scp with -C, to compress on the connection itself to save bandwidth.

Code:
uncompress -c < inputfile | scp -C /dev/stdin username@host:/path/to/destination/filename

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Old 12-18-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
You could use ssh instead of scp and pipe its output through the uncompress command.
If you do that, make sure you use the "-e none" ssh option to disable escape characters. If you don't, and your data contains any escape sequences, results are undefined...
 
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