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Re:Why curl defaults to stdout by Tyr42 on Monday November 17, 2014 @10:32AM (#8618596)
Could also do `curl ${url}.tgz | tar xz`.
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Re:Why curl defaults to stdout by coryrc on Monday November 17, 2014 @02:28PM (#8619943)
Which fails badly if the download gets interrupted.
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Re:Why curl defaults to stdout by scintill76 on Monday November 17, 2014 @04:50PM (#8620875)
Yeah, and you can't check file integrity (hash or crypto signature) first, or list the contents of the file before extracting.
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