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Untar remote file to local directory

Downloading a tar.gz file and extracting it after the download completes might consume a lot of disk space and time. It is possible to write tar.gz file directly as input to tar command and untar it to directory directly from remote url.

wget -qO- your_link_here | tar -xvz -C /target/directory
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