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curl http://www.tarball.com/tarball.gz | tar zxvf -Wow, adding quotes like parent to avoid buggy cmd-line-fu:
curl "http://www.tarball.com/tarball.gz" | tar zxvf -Well okay then.
curl $tarball-url | tar zxvf -If you dont need verbosity, the following is enough (removed stuff from the tar command arguments):
wget -qO - "http://www.tarball.com/tarball.gz" | tar zxAnd if you want to still view the download progress:
wget -O - -o /dev/stderr "http://www.tarball.com/tarball.gz" | tar zxHowto for bzip2 file ?
wget -qO - "
tar wont wait till wget is done .
Wonder if it's worthwhile tee'ing the tarball to md5sum?
-f - is redundant. tar reads from stdin by default.