On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 09:52:23 +0100 Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:09:38AM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > It's also good for unpacking archives, I much prefer its zoom-to-unpack to > > mucking about with tar (or especially zip,) although it's not as clean as > > p9's `hget url | gunzip | tar -x`. > > you know you can do something like > `curl url | zcat | tar x` or `wget -O - url | zcat | tar x` > on any respectable unix variant, right? zcat isn't quite so clean as having gunzip work properly in a filter, but yeah. Incidentally, I compared executable sizes of curl wget and p9p hget the other day, finding hget to be larger than curl. Maybe it's the p9p libs, but Plan 9 hget is about as large.
