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Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About

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172 points lnyan | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 15:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.297s | source
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emptiestplace ◴[20 Nov 24 19:28 UTC] No.42197265[source]▶
> The obvious way to do it is:

> $ gzip -c access.log > access.log.gz

Is it?

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zoky ◴[20 Nov 24 23:36 UTC] No.42199308[source]▶
I mean, if you’re the type of person who considers using tar and nc to be the obvious way to transfer a directory between two computers…
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vbezhenar ◴[21 Nov 24 02:44 UTC] No.42200575[source]▶
I might be weird, but for me the most obvious way to transfer a small directory is to do

    tar -cz dir | base64
Copy output into clipboard

    base64 -d | tar -xz
Paste from clipboard into input

Works flawlessly to move configs and stuff between servers.

I actually love the blend between terminal and GUI. For this example I'm using CLI tools to produce text and I'm using GUI to scroll, select and copy&paste the text between two terminal tabs. I wish developers put more emphasis on empowering terminal with GUI capabilities.

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1. Towaway69 ◴[21 Nov 24 06:53 UTC] No.42201805[source]▶
On Mac you can use pbcopy to copy something your pasteboard aka clipboard.

So the first command becomes:

   tar -cz dir | base64 | pbcopy