On Thu, 05 Sep 2002, nate at refried.org wrote:

> 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'
>

Cause I'm a perl junkie!?!?

Thanks. I guess I missed the obvious.