Re: turning a remote file into a local one

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 6, 11:15pm, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
}
} How could I convert a "ssh root@server tail -F /var/log/syslog" command 
} into a _live_ local file that I could then pass as argument to 
} root-tail? Can zsh do that?

You can try

  root-tail <(ssh root@server tail -F /var/log/syslog)

but I don't promise it will work because the file thus created is not
seekable.
 
} I tried using "=(ssh root@server tail -F /var/log/syslog)" but nothing 
} is displayed.

That attempts to synchronously capture the entire output of the remote
shell in the temporary file before executing the local command to read
the file.  Clearly not what you want.