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Show Contentu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish15·1 year agoAlmost, I think. wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -
Show Contentu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish4·1 year agoTAr stands for Tape Archive. Tapes store data sequentially. Downloads are done sequentially. It’s really just like a far away tape drive.
Show Contentqjkxbmwvz@startrek.website2·1 year 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).
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).