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If you can’t tar to a pipe into ssh to a remote host and untar into an arbitrary location there, are you really using Unix?
I had to pipe dd through gzip over SSH recently to locally image a disk on a cloud server. That was fun.
Useless Use Of dd
What the fuck lmao I didn’t know that was possible