Fast answer:

ssh me@foosystem ‘cat the_Remote_file’ >> localfile

Explanation:

                On system ‘foosystem’ (as me), cat the file.  On this system, append that stream of bytes to ‘localfile’.

Should you want to ‘tail –f’ the file on ‘foosystem’, change ‘cat’ to ‘tail –f’.  (Or grep, or …)

Rusty

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From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Michael Havens
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:05 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: merge documents with scp

is there a way to tell scp to add any appended text to an existing document? (that's called 'merge', right?)

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