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Asked: 2012-10-20 06:24:40 +0800 CST

Is there a way to use netcat to transfer a gzipped file to a remote destination?

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I have an archive I need to transfer to a remote destination but the target drive is not big enough to hold both the compressed archive and the uncompressed files.

I wonder if there are some utilities which can decompress the archive as the data arrives, rather than having to receive the whole thing then decompress it.

netcat is what seems to show up in my searches but I am open to any alternatives.

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  1. Best Answer

    On the sending side:

    dd if=somefile.gz bs=32M |nc server 7000

    On the receiving side:

    nc -l -p 7000 | gzip -dfc|dd bs=32M of=somefile

    or if it is a tar.gz

    nc -l -p 7000 | gzip -dfc|tar -xvf -
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