Re^2: Perl - Socket and Data Compression

There are a number of possibilities:

You could use Expect to fake a password interaction with SSH. That's probably your best bet because it does everything you want.

You could read the stdin and then send it to a socket, so your script has a similer user interface to ssh. E.G

$ tar -czgf- /path/to/stuff | ./your_script
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You could use named pipes (AKA fifo).

$ mkfifo mypipe
$ tar -czf mypipe /path/to/stuff &
$ ./your_script --infile mypipe
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The best place to read about all this and more is perlipc.

If you're going to do your own networking, and not use SSH, check out IO::Socket::SSL.

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Re^3: Perl - Socket and Data Compression by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 18, 2009 at 05:35 UTC
My post was just "how to compress the bits". How to securely access the compresed bits is a different question which I didn't address. From my experience the .7Z format is cool. But I've found my typical users can't install this thing even though its freeware. However, I've also found that I can use this thing to make a .zip file about 10x as fast and 20% smaller than the Windows .zip program. The Windows "unzip" can read this 7zipped, .zip file.	[reply]
Re^4: Perl - Socket and Data Compression by pileofrogs (Priest) on Jul 18, 2009 at 15:15 UTC
Woah... I missed the boat on that one... What about bzip2? `tar -cvjf - /path/to/stuff \| ...` There's also rar, but I don't know much about it. I know there's a unix command unrar --Pileofrogs	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Perl - Socket and Data Compression by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 21, 2009 at 23:34 UTC
7zip will do better than tar. http://www.7-zip.org/ 7zip is free and works very, very well.	[reply]
Re^6: Perl - Socket and Data Compression by pileofrogs (Priest) on Jul 22, 2009 at 16:02 UTC
Re^7: Perl - Socket and Data Compression by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 22, 2009 at 17:39 UTC