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| # clear your terminal scroll buffer (Cmd-K on Mac OS X) | |
| remote-host$ tar czf - * | uuencode file.tgz | |
| # copy all the output | |
| local-host$ cat > uu | |
| # paste | |
| # Ctrl+D | |
| ## On Mac OSX you can use "pbpaste > uu" | |
| local-host$ uudecode uu | |
| local-host$ tar xzf file.tgz | |
| ## I've actually used this in production. |
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