Hi,

I want to send a tarball through FTP "on the fly".
I can't tar on local machine first (because I boot from CD, got a
shell and am trying to tar the whole installed / to a backup server), so
I have to tar and ftp_put on the fly. I saw (while pkg_adding) that you
can ftp_get and untar on the fly, but how to do the same thing the other way ?

seen on pkg_add :
ftp> get xv-3.10anb7.tgz "| ( cd /var/tmp/instmp.15276b ; gunzip 2>/dev/null | tar -vvx -f - | tee /dev/stderr )"

I tried :
ftp> " ( tar cf - . | gzip -c - ) " | put me.tar.gz
ftp> " ( tar cf - . | gzip -c - ) |" put me.tar.gz

but both fail with "command not found".

TIA,
	Jo
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