Comment Re:netcat has cousins (Score 1) 244
ssh (at least OpenSSH) uses the same algorithm as gzip.
You could also use the 'z' option to tar, which also uses gzip to compress/uncompress tar files.
An even easier (and more portable) variant would be to use:
scp -C -r sourceDir 'me@host:destinationDir'
thereby bypassing the overhead of tar. Only a fast link (+100M), you could probably get better performance by skipping the compression (too much overhead). This only shows why this book is over-rated!
