[SOLVED] Copy containing a string to other server in shell script

Issue

I have a question How can I cat filea.txt and write to fileb.txt with a shell script? Filea and fileb are different server Linux.

cat filea.txt >> fileb.txt in other server

Many thanks!

Solution

cat filea.txt >> /tmp/fileb.txt
scp /tmp/fileb.txt [email protected]:~/fileb.txt

Just to let you know, ~/ is the home directory of that user. You'd need to replace the user and the ip, ofc. You can also not paste into the home directory and do a full file path.

scp is really cool, check out its man page.

EDIT: I do see your trouble with the appending.

You can try to cat filea.txt | ssh [email protected] "cat >> fileb.txt" This works because cat takes from stdin when no file is specified.

Answered By - Leif Messinger LOAF