Hi,

Say I am doing a tar of a particular directory by
"tar -cf newtarfile /opt"

then newtarfile is the tar of the directory /opt.

Now instead of putting the "newtarfile" on my unix harddisk, I would like to send it to another machine simultaneously as it is taring. I do have sockets and use write to write to the other machine. My question is how do i use the output of this and use it as an input to my write function. I am using the unix "write"function.

I am invoking the tar from my code using the system command. Now i am trying to somehow redirect the output. Any ideas/help using the pipe is highly appreciated.

Thanks,

you give "-" as the filename and tar will output to standard output; for example, to tar and send it to another machine through SSH, do

I already have sockets for the communication. Already a function write_sock is there which uses the unix " write (int socket, (void*)ptr, int numberofbytes);"

Now how do i tell the tar function to send it to this socket?