From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 31 01:42:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA01998 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 01:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA01987 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 01:42:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA25358; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:39:58 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma025356; Mon Mar 31 12:39:45 1997 Message-ID: <333F866F.71B9@barcode.co.il> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:39:59 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway CC: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Piping ftp to stdout References: <199703310802.RAA02124@topdown.bns.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Is there some ftp-like utility which I ca use to pipe the retrieveddata > of a file directly to stdout (ie through gzip, etc) without needing to > save it on disk first then wait until it's finished? I know some ftp > servers support server-side gzipping, but not all, and the are other > utilities which would also be useful to use in place of it. > > Thanks, > > Kris > > || ,-./\ Kris Kennaway || "Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. || > ||/ \ || Dead. Dead. Dead. How can you apologize to them?" || > ||\_,-*_/ kkenn@ || "I..can't" "Then how can I forgive?" || > || v bns.com.au || - G'Kar and Vir, "Comes the Inquisitor", Babylon 5 || I think fetch will do that, as will wget and "lynx -dump -source" (both are in the ports somewhere). Look at their man pages. Nadav