[KLUG Members] remote copy of /homes directory

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > Your second command could be as simple as "cat > /{somedir}/{somefile}",
> > that would write directly to a file.
> So the cat would work without a filename, then? 

Yes, if no filename is provided cat assumes standard input (file handle
0).  You can also use the "-" filename again, which sometimes is a
little clearer.

cat /etc/passwd | cat
is the same as
cat /etc/passwd | cat -

so you can do things like

cat /etc/passwd | cat - | sort
*pointless in this example, but you get the idea

as part of the ssh command-to-execute

>  The input stream must contain an end of file character then?

I don't know how it is encoded, but EOF is communicated across the pipe.