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minus-squareqjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up39arrow-down1·3 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-up8·3 months agoSomething like wget avc.com | tar xvf ?
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 months agoAlmost, I think. wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -
minus-squareMidnight1938@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·3 months agoDidnt think this would ever work
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 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-squareqjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 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’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.
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).