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A bash scripting question. Suppose we have a calling host H and a remote server S. Is it possible (using a ssh remote invocation of tar from H to S) uncompress a file archive residing on S (and thus using computing resources of S) such that the files and directories of an archive are created only on H?
If your tarball is gzipped, you can remotely gunzip it and locally untar it with
For this to actually be fast you need a very fast network and a very slow workstation.
You can’t untar the archive remotely unless you have a shared filesystem (NFS, CIFS, …).