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linuxmemes @lemmy.world Krafting @lemmy.world 9mo ago

the fear of missing out a better compression

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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.
- Something like wget avc.com | tar xvf ?
  
  Almost, I think.
  
  wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -
  
  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).

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