# 2017-07-11

A neat (and popular) trick when transferring data over network is 
to compress the data on the fly and extract it on the fly [1]:

	On the receiving end do:
	netcat -l -p 7000 | tar x

	And on the sending end do:
	tar cf - ./* | netcat otherhost 7000

I have used this quite often in the last years.

[1] http://toast.djw.org.uk/tarpipe.html