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Old 04-22-2015
Wget and tar

Is it possible to pipe a tar -xzf with a wget ? Thank you Smilie.

Code:
wget http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/0wgxR2rIVP/annovar.latest.tar.gz | tar -xzf annovar.latest.tar.gz

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Old 04-22-2015
Yes it is.

Code:
wget URL -O - | tar -zxf -

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Old 04-22-2015
Thank you Smilie
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