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Re:XXH: Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through th... by tyingq on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:05PM (#29558653)
Is there a description somewhere as to what it's doing under the covers?

A simplistic version could be just to ship a static binary of your shell over, like:

tar -cf - ./bash-binary | ssh $host 'tar -xf -;./bash-binary -c "echo hello world"'

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Re:XXH: Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through th... by solarfair on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @02:42AM (#29563111)
From the wiki, essentially that:

https://github.com/xxh/xxh/wiki#how-it-works

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Re:XXH: Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through th... by hansel_der on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:17AM (#29563999)
yea

why would you tar-up a single file w/o compression thou?

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