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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:08:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
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To: Chuck <chuckh AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: ftp: pipe doesn't work
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Try double quotes in stead of single ones:
ftp> put "|tar cvz dir" dir.tgz
... list
ftp> get dir.tgz "|tar tz"
... same list

WFM :)

HTH

rlc

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Chuck wrote:

> I've installed the inetutils package and am running the ftp command that 
> was included in it. I tried to ftp the output of a piped command using the 
> | as the first character of the file name and got the following error...
> 
> ftp>  put '|tar cvf install.sh install.zip' test.tar
> ftp: local: '|tar: No such file or directory
> 
> Is the pipe mechanism not implemented in cygwin's ftp?
> 
> 
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