From: Aaron W Morris (Decep@NETSCAPE.NET)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 17:59:29 EDT
You can do this with some FTP daemons (WU-FTPD comes to mind). Some support on-the-fly compression by putting ".gz" on the end of file names. Directories can also be tarred and gzipped on the fly by putting ".tar" or ".tar.gz" on the end of the directory names.
"B.N.Sarma" <bsarma@BASIT.COM> wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I need to compress and ftp 2 or 3 files from 4 RS6000 server to
>another RS6000 server.
>I would like to avoid rsh. I would like to compress and ftp on the fly
>and if possible retain the original at the source unchanged, for tht can
>I use bzip2.
>can I do some thing like this. Please advice.
>
>ftp -i -n <<EOF
>open source1
>user $user $pass
>ftp> cd loc
>ftp> get file1.log "|compress"
>ftp>get file2.log "|compress"
>
>EOF
>
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