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README.creole

Often you need to download and extract archives from the internet, e.g. to install Drupal modules. Therefore you download the archive, extract it and remove the original archive. Using modern[tm] UNIX pipes you can directly pipe it to tar; therefore you don't need to save and remove the archive.

Example:

user@host> wgetar http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/views-7.x-3.5.tar.gz

See the result:

user@host> ls -R
.:
views

./views:
css
D7UPGRADE.txt
documentation-standards.txt
(and so on)
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wgetar
#!/bin/bash
# Downloads an archive from an URL and pipes it to tar for extraction
wget -O - $@ | tar xvzf -
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