Anyone know of a random data generator?

[Bill McGonigle]

FYI, tar interprets '-' as STDIN/STDOUT.

one of my favorite uses of it is:

   tar -czlf - / | ssh user at example.com tar -xzvf - -C /backups/foo

for a quick-n-dirty secure file transfer.

On Jul 29, 2004, at 15:29, Kevin D. Clark wrote:

> tar expects the arguments after the
> tarfile/tape-device (/dev/st1 in your case) to be *file and directory
> names* and not random gobbledygook and/or "-" (whichever you
> intended).
>
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