Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 09:52:23 +0100
Nick <suckless-dev_AT_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.
Received on Wed Jun 08 2011 - 22:39:20 CEST