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    the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
    submitted 5 months ago by Krafting@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Something like wget avc.com | tar xvf ?

    [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Almost, I think.

    wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -
    [–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Didnt think this would ever work

    [–] uis@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

    This is what we call UNIX-way

    [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago

    TAr stands for Tape Archive. Tapes store data sequentially. Downloads are done sequentially.

    It's really just like a far away tape drive.

    [–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

    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).