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blow(1) General Commands Manual blow(1) NAME suck, blow -- transfer data over a TCP connection SYNOPSIS suck [-v] [-p port] [remote-ip] blow [-v] [-p port] [remote-ip] DESCRIPTION Suck and blow are simple programs used to transfer data over a TCP con- nection. Blow is the originator of the data, which is read from stan- dard input, while suck is the recipient of the data, which is written to standard output. Either program may originate the TCP connection which is used for the transfer; whichever program is supplied with the remote-ip argument will be the originator. The other program is expected to have already been started, with no remote-ip argument, causing it to await a connec- tion from the peer. These programs are often useful in conjunction with archiving programs such as tar(1). The options are as follows: -v Increased verbosity. -p Specify an alternate TCP port to use. The default port is 6060. EXAMPLES To transfer the directory hierarchy mystuff from machine A to machine B, first on machine B: [machineB] $ suck | tar xvf - and then on machine A: [machineA] $ tar cvf - mystuff | blow machineB If machine B was behind a firewall, you could do this instead: [machineA] $ tar cvf - mystuff | blow and then on machine B: [machineB] $ suck machineA | tar xvf - SEE ALSO cpio(1), tar(1) AUTHORS Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> 4th Berkeley Distribution June 23, 2000 blow(1)
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