How does he do that? Turns out the only difference is that you are combining what most of us do in two steps into one.
Oh you were being literal. I thought this was something else. Maybe make a tutorial on pipes instead? It is not any thing new, but i just described some of the possible and easy ways to save time while downloading TAR archives with wget and curl commands. I know this can be helpful to newbies. Have a question or suggestion? Please leave a comment to start the discussion. This can easily be done by the following command:.
Once again, we can show this using an example. We will be downloading two HTML files from two different websites. For better understanding, please look at the image below:. Here filename refers to the name that you want to address the file as. Using this, we can also change the type of the file. This is shown in the image below:. Wget also allows users to recursively download their files which is basically downloading all the files from the website under a single directory.
For more information regarding Wget, users can input the following command into the terminal to get access to all the Wget commands that appear to be available:. Curl is another command line tool that can be used to download files from the internet. Unlike Wget, which is command line only, features of Curl are powered by libcurl which is a cross-platform URL transfer library. Curl not only allows downloading of files but can also be used for uploading and exchanging of requests with servers.
However, Curl does not support recursive downloads which Wget offers. The -x option tells tar to extract the files. You can also use xargs with tar to create a tar.
Note: Some graphical interfaces include a tool for managing tar. Simply right-click the item you want to compress, mouseover compress, and choose tar.
You can also right-click a tar. This tutorial explains how to use the tar tool, the gzip tool, and how to utilize them together to work with tar. You are now ready to extract or unzip any tar. How to Extract or Unzip tar. Extracting tar. Introduction A tar. It is time I confess. This is not the curl tool you are using. It's only an alias. In reality, we are calling the command Invoke-WebRequest. But hey! It works, so we don't care.
You can call it in its native format if you want to. Did you like this article? You can buy me a coffee. Share your insightful comments here. One thing I am learning the hard way is, if you don't write it down you will forget it.
I always think I will remember my thoughts. But nope. The next day, my mind is blank and I am frustrated. When dealing with software bugs, how you ask the question determines how likely you are to get a good answer.
To me programming is talking with a computer. The computer understands zeroes and ones, nothing in between. So when someone has a bug and tells a story instead of giving the relevant zeroes and ones, chances are they will never find a solution.
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