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Untar a Tarball to a Remote Directory

May 08, 2023 — Gregg Szumowski

Sometimes you may need to copy an entire directory structure to another system using the command line. Here is a quick way to do it using the tar command:

cat myfile.tgz | ssh user@host "tar xzf - -C /some/dir"

Tags: cli, motd, tar