Downloading and extracting a .tar to a specific directory

I want to download a tar of a git repo and extract its contents to another folder.

The following line (broken up for clarity) works:

curl -L -0 nt-dotfiles.tar.gz \ | tar --strip-components=1 -zx -C ~/Documents/dotfiles

but gives gives this error:

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: nt-dotfiles.tar.gz; nodename nor servname provided, or not known

I'm fine with leaving things as-is (because it still works) but I'm curious about the error, and would feel better if it went away.

Thanks!

2 Answers

Your syntax should be: curl -L -o nt-dotfiles.tar.gz ... You are using a zero instead of lower case 'Oh'. Zero forces curl to use http1.0. 'o' provides an output filename.

From the man page:

-0, --http1.0 (HTTP) Forces curl to issue its requests using HTTP 1.0 instead of using its internally preferred: HTTP 1.1.
-o, --output <file> Write output to <file> instead of stdout. If you are using {} or [] to fetch multiple documents, you can use '#' followed by a number in the <file> specifier. That variable will be replaced with the current string for the URL being fetched. Like in: curl -o "file_#1.txt"

You may try:

$ curl -s | tar xvf - -C dest/