It is sometimes useful to pipe binary data over a ssh connection. I use this sometimes when I want to back up the data on a machine over the network without creating a backup file first.   tar -cf – dir_to_backup | ssh user@hostname ‘cat > backup.tar’

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On a typical project there are many different computers that I must use. For years I have been using scp to copy files from one computer to another and wishing for a way to just mount the SSH filesystem. Well, my wish finally came true! The good news is that thanks to sshfs I can [...]

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This past week I created a Python script to test a certain CORBA component. The component uses callbacks to pass data back to the caller. So, in theory, all one has to do is register a callback with the CORBA object, call the Start() method, and let the data start coming. Now, once I got [...]

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