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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink39•6 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-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)linkfedilinkEnglish15•6 months agoAlmost, I think. wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)linkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoTAr stands for Tape Archive. Tapes store data sequentially. Downloads are done sequentially. It’s really just like a far away tape drive.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•6 months agoI 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).
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.
Didnt think this would ever work
This is what we call UNIX-way
TAr stands for Tape Archive. Tapes store data sequentially. Downloads are done sequentially.
It’s really just like a far away tape drive.
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).