Krafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5 months agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareqjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoWhen 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.
minus-squareMidnight1938@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoSomething like wget avc.com | tar xvf ?
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoAlmost, I think. wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -
When I’m feeling cool and downloading a
*.tar*file, I’llwgetto stdout, and tar from stdin. Archive gets extracted on the fly.I have (successfully!) written an
.isoto CD this way, too (pipe wget to cdrecord). Fun stuff.Something like
wget avc.com | tar xvf?Almost, I think.