Quick question on curl and tar

hbinded · 04-24-2007, 09:25 PM

I sometimes do this;

Code:

curl http://downloads.sourceforge.net/foo-bar.tar.bz2 | (tar -xjvf -)

Does that corrupt the source code or do anything "bad" ?
After that, I cd into the "foo-bar" folder and do this again (if there is a patch);

Code:

curl ftp://some-ftp.net/foobar/foo-bar-fixes-123.patch | (patch -Np1 -i -)

So far this hasn't brought up any errors while compiling. Is this ok?

Thanks

osor · 04-24-2007, 09:28 PM

Why would it do anything “bad”? Looks perfectly healthy to me. You might want to store as a temporary file and do an integrity check, however.

hbinded · 04-24-2007, 09:38 PM

thanks for the speedy reply. Just did a quick check of a directory using my method against the one from the source tarball and "diff -Naur" finds no differences. Thanks!