How to curl and unzip to a certain directory?

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you curl a file to stdout then unzip to some dir.

score 22 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '18 at 11:09

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unzip (version 6.00) can not extract files read from standard input (this is mentioned in the unzip manual, in the "BUGS" section), so the file will need to be saved locally before extraction:

curl -o myfile.zip "some URL"
unzip myfile.zip -d "some directory"
rm -f myfile.zip

where some directory is the directory into which you'd like to extract the archive.

answered Jan 30 '18 at 11:09

Kusalananda

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But jar can... – Stephen Kitt Jan 30 '18 at 22:18
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As @StephenKitt said: curl $zip_file_url | jar xv – Noam Manos Jan 15 '20 at 13:51

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