In need of a bit of shellish magic

[Tom Buskey]

On 6/2/06, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
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> For extra points, what's the magic to pipe it through tar? I tried >
> and | followed by tar -czf svndump20060602.tgz, but just haven't
> grokked piping yet, apparently.



Umm, something like

svnadmin dump /path/to/repos | tar cf - | gzip -c | ssh remote 'cd
/backup/dir; cat - > scndump-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz'

I'm assuming svnadm dump outputs to stdout.  To tar, cf - means create file
on stdout
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