openssh unix dev - Oct 2006 - data streaming using SFTP

Sorry to interrupt, just a quick question...

I need to find out if openssh has any functions that would read some memory
chuck and transfer that chunk over SSH ( what I mean here is SFTP), except
that I don't want it to open a file and read it and transfer it since there
will not be enough storage space to store files. Therefore I need to have
some functions that would stream the data as they arrive on the fly. Please
let me know if such function exists in this package.

Thanks

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:44:27PM -0700, behnam rashidian
wrote:
> Sorry to interrupt, just a quick question...
> 
> I need to find out if openssh has any functions that would read some memory
> chuck and transfer that chunk over SSH ( what I mean here is SFTP), except
> that I don't want it to open a file and read it and transfer it since
there
> will not be enough storage space to store files. Therefore I need to have
> some functions that would stream the data as they arrive on the fly. Please
> let me know if such function exists in this package.
> 
Why must you use SFTP, which is a "file transfer protocol"?

What you want is trivial with straight SSH:

	ssh foo at host cat /some/file | process_file

or
	cat /some/file | ssh foo at host process_file