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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 month ago

Almost, I think.

wget -O - http://example.com/archive.tar | tar -xvf -
[-] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

Didnt think this would ever work

[-] uis@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

This is what we call UNIX-way

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month 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 1 month 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).

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