Question

My goal:

having a shellscript for a cronjob (on MacOSX Snow Leopard) that connects to a Debian machine with ssh (public/private key login), executes a tar command and downloads the tarred file afterwards.

My problem:

The login works, also the execution of some commands. But how can I download a file back to the local machine?

This is what I have so far:

This is the content of the shell script so far:

#!/bin/bash
ssh user@remotehost << 'ENDSSH'
tar -C / -czf /home/user/stuff.tar.gz /home/user/stuff
ENDSSH

Answer 1

Short and simple, no heredoc needed.

ssh -Te none user@remotehost "tar -C / -cz /home/user/stuff" >stuff.tar.gz