I want to redirect the output of a local command (using local files) to a remote command.
I know doing something like this is possible:
[user@local ~]$ head -c 5 /dev/urandom | ssh server@192.168.1.120 "cat"
… but I would like to know if there is a way to do this via the SSH console, just like the scp
command that refers both local and remote files:
[user@remote ~]$ scp test.txt remote:/new.txt
Copying the local file to the remote server is undesirable, I would just like to redirect output.
** Both machines run Linux (bash).
Best Answer
I think the best way is to redirect the output to a file and then scp that file to the remote host and then you can run the cat command there.
$ head -c 5 /dev/urandom > random && scp ./random user@remoteip:/path/. && cat /path/random
Hope this will satisfy your needs. Reply if it don't.