Comments on: Remote copy without scp

By: Robin H Johnson

Robin H Johnson — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:25:10 +0000

I use similar stuff often enough, esp when I’ve had to bounce through multiple layers of firewall with SSH.

encode:
# tar cj . | base64
decode:
# base64 -d | tar xj

hades — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:54:47 +0000

Ah, how glad I am to finally read something sane on April’s Fool

Thanks, it’s very nice, actually.

Hope you meant it as a joke, so I look stupid now =)

Tannek — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:08:03 +0000

I didn’t get the joke… / :