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| author | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2022-01-22 16:29:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2022-01-22 16:29:11 +0000 |
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diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-11-29-bash-golf-part-1.md b/gemfeed/2021-11-29-bash-golf-part-1.md index d30a49a5..1bdc4452 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-11-29-bash-golf-part-1.md +++ b/gemfeed/2021-11-29-bash-golf-part-1.md @@ -280,10 +280,10 @@ Let's walk through all three examples from the above snippet: * The second pipes "Hello world" via stdout to stdin of the "cat" command. As cat's argument is "-" it reads its data from stdin and not from a regular file named "-". So "-" has a special meaning for cat. * The third and fourth examples are interesting as we don't use a pipe as of "|" but a so-called HERE-document and a HERE-string. But the end results are the same. -The "tar" command understands "-" too. The following example tars up some local directory and sends the data to stdout (this is what "-f -" commands it to do). stdout then is piped via an SSH session to a remote tar process (running on snonux.de) and reads the data from stdin and extracts all the data coming from stdin (as we told tar with "-f -") on the remote machine: +The "tar" command understands "-" too. The following example tars up some local directory and sends the data to stdout (this is what "-f -" commands it to do). stdout then is piped via an SSH session to a remote tar process (running on buetow.org) and reads the data from stdin and extracts all the data coming from stdin (as we told tar with "-f -") on the remote machine: ``` -❯ tar -czf - /some/dir | ssh hercules@snonux.de tar -xzvf - +❯ tar -czf - /some/dir | ssh hercules@buetow.org tar -xzvf - ``` This is yet another example of using "-", but this time using the "file" command: @@ -461,6 +461,6 @@ In the Bash you will have to fall back to an external command like "bc" (the arb .10 ``` -See you later for the next post of this series. E-Mail me your comments to snonux@snonux.de! +See you later for the next post of this series. E-Mail me your comments to paul at buetow dot org! [Go back to the main site](../) |