Krafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up113file-text
arrow-up113imagethe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldKrafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareqjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year 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-up0·1 year agoSomething like wget avc.com | tar xvf ?
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoAlmost, I think. wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -
When I’m feeling cool and downloading a
*.tar*
file, I’llwget
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.Something like
wget avc.com | tar xvf
?Almost, I think.