Comments on: How to Download and Extract Tar Files with One Command

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 20:50:30 +0000

Not to be picky but… In all your examples you may be doing ONE operation but you are executing TWO separate commands. Depending on the example, you are either piping (|) wget and cURL commands into a tar command, or you are chaining (&&) wget and cURL commands with tar command.

I know that when commands are chained with ‘&&’, the command following the double ampersand does not get executed if the command preceding the ampersands fails. But what is piped into tar in case wget or cURL commands fail for some reason?

Therefore, shouldn’t the title be “How to Download and Extract Tar Files in One Operation”? It’s a minor quibble, I know.

When I saw the topic under Learn Linux Tricks & Tips, I was intrigued. 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.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 06:10:41 +0000

In reply to TheOuterLinux.

@TheOuterLinux

” I thought this was something else”, not really. 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.

By: TheOuterLinux

TheOuterLinux — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:51:23 +0000

Oh you were being literal. I thought this was something else. Maybe make a tutorial on pipes instead?