Re: ftp: pipe doesn't work

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 out

Re: ftp: pipe doesn't work

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 in

ftp: pipe doesn't work

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