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the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (6 children)

When I'm feeling cool and downloading a *.tar* file, I'll wget to stdout, and tar from stdin. Archive gets extracted on the fly.

I have (successfully!) written an .iso to CD this way, too (pipe wget to cdrecord). Fun stuff.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Something like wget avc.com | tar xvf ?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Almost, I think.

wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I usually suppress output of either wget (-q) or of tar (no v flag), otherwise I think the output gets mangled and looks funny (you see both download progress and files being extracted).

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