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? > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
