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I'm trying to download a tar (works) and immediately unpack it to a subdirectory (ideally named the same as the archive). I thought following code should work but it attempts to write the write unpacked files to STDOUT and fails.
wget -O - https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz | tar -xvz --one-top-level
Results in (very cryptic failure):
...
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’
...
Cannot write to ‘-’ (Success).
Not specifying --one-top-level fixes the issue but then the files inside just get extracted to current folder, as expected.
Doing it in two separate commands: downloading it first and then unpacking with intermediate file works, again as expected.
wget https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz
tar -xvz --one-top-level -f artificial_objects.tgz
I know that I could create a subfolder and change tar's output directory using -C but I'd rather understand why my approach doesn't work.
TAR v2016
bash tar
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I'm trying to download a tar (works) and immediately unpack it to a subdirectory (ideally named the same as the archive). I thought following code should work but it attempts to write the write unpacked files to STDOUT and fails.
wget -O - https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz | tar -xvz --one-top-level
Results in (very cryptic failure):
...
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’
...
Cannot write to ‘-’ (Success).
Not specifying --one-top-level fixes the issue but then the files inside just get extracted to current folder, as expected.
Doing it in two separate commands: downloading it first and then unpacking with intermediate file works, again as expected.
wget https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz
tar -xvz --one-top-level -f artificial_objects.tgz
I know that I could create a subfolder and change tar's output directory using -C but I'd rather understand why my approach doesn't work.
TAR v2016
bash tar
asked yesterday
PetrrollPetrroll
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I'm trying to download a tar (works) and immediately unpack it to a subdirectory (ideally named the same as the archive). I thought following code should work but it attempts to write the write unpacked files to STDOUT and fails.
wget -O - https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz | tar -xvz --one-top-level
Results in (very cryptic failure):
...
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’
...
Cannot write to ‘-’ (Success).
Not specifying --one-top-level fixes the issue but then the files inside just get extracted to current folder, as expected.
Doing it in two separate commands: downloading it first and then unpacking with intermediate file works, again as expected.
wget https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz
tar -xvz --one-top-level -f artificial_objects.tgz
I know that I could create a subfolder and change tar's output directory using -C but I'd rather understand why my approach doesn't work.
TAR v2016
bash tar
asked yesterday
PetrrollPetrroll
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Petrroll is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
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I'm trying to download a tar (works) and immediately unpack it to a subdirectory (ideally named the same as the archive). I thought following code should work but it attempts to write the write unpacked files to STDOUT and fails.
wget -O - https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz | tar -xvz --one-top-level
Results in (very cryptic failure):
...
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’
...
Cannot write to ‘-’ (Success).
Not specifying --one-top-level fixes the issue but then the files inside just get extracted to current folder, as expected.
Doing it in two separate commands: downloading it first and then unpacking with intermediate file works, again as expected.
wget https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz
tar -xvz --one-top-level -f artificial_objects.tgz
I know that I could create a subfolder and change tar's output directory using -C but I'd rather understand why my approach doesn't work.
TAR v2016
bash tar
bash tar
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ideally named the same as the archive
It's true man 1 tar says
--one-top-level[=DIR]
Extract all files intoDIR, or, if used without argument, into a subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard compression suffixes recognizable by--auto-compress).
The problem is tar in your pipe cannot know the name of the archive; only wget knows it. The message Cannot write to ‘-’ (Success) is cryptic to me, as if the tool got confused. In my tests the exit status is 2, this contradicts the alleged "success". Maybe tar should be improved in handling this case.
Anyway, tar doesn't know the name of the archive. It will work if you provide DIR:
wget -O - https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz
| tar -xvz --one-top-level=artificial_objects
It may or may not be artificial_objects, it's totally up to you. The tool will create the directory, if needed.
Based on
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.29
…
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ideally named the same as the archive
It's true man 1 tar says
--one-top-level[=DIR]
Extract all files intoDIR, or, if used without argument, into a subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard compression suffixes recognizable by--auto-compress).
The problem is tar in your pipe cannot know the name of the archive; only wget knows it. The message Cannot write to ‘-’ (Success) is cryptic to me, as if the tool got confused. In my tests the exit status is 2, this contradicts the alleged "success". Maybe tar should be improved in handling this case.
Anyway, tar doesn't know the name of the archive. It will work if you provide DIR:
wget -O - https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz
| tar -xvz --one-top-level=artificial_objects
It may or may not be artificial_objects, it's totally up to you. The tool will create the directory, if needed.
Based on
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.29
…
answered yesterday
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ideally named the same as the archive
It's true man 1 tar says
--one-top-level[=DIR]
Extract all files intoDIR, or, if used without argument, into a subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard compression suffixes recognizable by--auto-compress).
The problem is tar in your pipe cannot know the name of the archive; only wget knows it. The message Cannot write to ‘-’ (Success) is cryptic to me, as if the tool got confused. In my tests the exit status is 2, this contradicts the alleged "success". Maybe tar should be improved in handling this case.
Anyway, tar doesn't know the name of the archive. It will work if you provide DIR:
wget -O - https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz
| tar -xvz --one-top-level=artificial_objects
It may or may not be artificial_objects, it's totally up to you. The tool will create the directory, if needed.
Based on
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.29
…
answered yesterday
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ideally named the same as the archive
It's true man 1 tar says
--one-top-level[=DIR]
Extract all files intoDIR, or, if used without argument, into a subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard compression suffixes recognizable by--auto-compress).
The problem is tar in your pipe cannot know the name of the archive; only wget knows it. The message Cannot write to ‘-’ (Success) is cryptic to me, as if the tool got confused. In my tests the exit status is 2, this contradicts the alleged "success". Maybe tar should be improved in handling this case.
Anyway, tar doesn't know the name of the archive. It will work if you provide DIR:
wget -O - https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz
| tar -xvz --one-top-level=artificial_objects
It may or may not be artificial_objects, it's totally up to you. The tool will create the directory, if needed.
Based on
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.29
…
answered yesterday
Kamil MaciorowskiKamil Maciorowski
28k156184
ideally named the same as the archive
It's true man 1 tar says
--one-top-level[=DIR]
Extract all files intoDIR, or, if used without argument, into a subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard compression suffixes recognizable by--auto-compress).
The problem is tar in your pipe cannot know the name of the archive; only wget knows it. The message Cannot write to ‘-’ (Success) is cryptic to me, as if the tool got confused. In my tests the exit status is 2, this contradicts the alleged "success". Maybe tar should be improved in handling this case.
Anyway, tar doesn't know the name of the archive. It will work if you provide DIR:
wget -O - https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~zabokrtsky/courses/npfl104/data/classification/artificial_objects.tgz
| tar -xvz --one-top-level=artificial_objects
It may or may not be artificial_objects, it's totally up to you. The tool will create the directory, if needed.
Based on
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.29
…
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