Comments on: Linux QuickTip: Downloading and Un-tarring in One Step

By: Sikachu!

Sikachu! — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:43:26 +0000

Thank you very much

I know I could done this, and you really made my day!

supermansghost — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:33:02 +0000

I like the turl script – very useful

The Geek — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:51:05 +0000

I wrapped this into a script that I called turl:

——— beginning of turl ———–
#!/bin/sh
# Usage: turl

curl “$1″ | tar xz
——— end of turl ———–

I also wrapped wget into a script that I called tget, for servers that don’t have curl

——— beginning of tget ———–
#!/bin/sh
# Usage: tget

wget “$1″ -O- | tar xz
——— end of tget ———–

Awesome tip…

Mr Linux — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:01:27 +0000

True, but curl doesn’t require any extra switches to pipe to stdout.

On the plus side (for using wget), wget is included with most *nix systems whereas it’s hit-and-miss with curl.

Michael B — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:52:07 +0000

You can use wget instead of curl for this:

-O- means “output to standard output”.