[TriLUG] possible awk/grep question

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Brian McCullough wrote:

> Have you tried "-", Joe?  This is just off the top of my head, but
> something like:

well I tried

done) < `ssh $machine cat /etc/passwd -`

and other combinations with pipes, but I was operating on 
the monkey/typewriter/sonnet principle and didn't get 
anything useful

Joe

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> ssh cat passwd | do your stuff
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> with appropriate parentheses and backquotes might do the trick.
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