On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:04:32AM -0500, Clay Fandre wrote: > If you just need to append data remotely, you can use an ssh pipe and > perl: > > echo text | ssh remotemachine "perl -we 'print <STDIN>' >> remotefile" Why add perl to the mix? The shell can do this just as well. echo "This is a test" | ssh logger at remotemachine 'cat >> remotefile' Nate