wget on OS X

[ScKaSx]

Hi All,

Sorry for posting so many issues at once. Anyways, I compiled wget from source since it doesn't come native on osx and moved the binary to /usr/local/bin (and this is in my path).

I'm trying to run a typical (PC) wget command:
wget -q -O - ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/devel/mutt-1.5.16.taar.gz | tar xvfz -

However, I get the following error:
" gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors "

Any clues on how I can fix this, or is my syntax somehow off for the wget command. Note: I have 10.4.9 and gzip is located in /usr/bin (don't think this makes a difference).

Cheers,
ScKaSx

[mkrishnan]

wget -q -O - ... | tar xvfz -
^ ^


I'm probably missing something quite obvious, but what are the two floating hyphens for? It's not usual unix parlance to have a hyphen with no flag attached to it.

[itickings]

I'm trying to run a typical (PC) wget command:
wget -q -O - ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/devel/mutt-1.5.16.taar.gz | tar xvfz -

However, I get the following error:
" gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors "


Does it work better if you use wget -q -O - ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/devel/mutt-1.5.16.tar.gz | tar xvfz - instead?

You can also try curl ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/devel/mutt-1.5.16.tar.gz | tar xvfz -
Curl is included with OS X.

I'm probably missing something quite obvious, but what are the two floating hyphens for? It's not usual unix parlance to have a hyphen with no flag attached to it.
Well, it's not really that uncommon to refer to stdin/stdout that way, is it?

[AlmostThere]

I'm probably missing something quite obvious, but what are the two floating hyphens for? It's not usual unix parlance to have a hyphen with no flag attached to it.

IIRC, it 'normally' indicates some expected input is coming from stdin.

I have seen it in a few places used like this ... but no comment on standard-ness of it.

[emotion]

Are you sure that command line is correct. This can happen when the file isn't really gzipped etc

I use curl instead btw. 'curl -O url' is more or less the same as 'wget url'

[Nugget]

I'm probably missing something quite obvious, but what are the two floating hyphens for? It's not usual unix parlance to have a hyphen with no flag attached to it.

This is a very common shorthand for "stdin" when dealing with Unix command line apps.

[ScKaSx]

Hi all,

Just an update, I'm an idiot. It works, I just typed the URL wrong. If you'll notice in my post I added an extra 'a' to the tar file. Sorry for wasting everyones time.

Any ideas.

Cheers,
ScKaSx

[mkrishnan]

LOL glad you got it figured out. :)

And thanks for the education on stdin. I'd never seen that before.

[itickings]

Just an update, I'm an idiot. It works, I just typed the URL wrong. If you'll notice in my post I added an extra 'a' to the tar file. Sorry for wasting everyones time.


Yeah, I noticed (as you can see in my previous reply), but I tried to be a bit nicer than calling you, as you phrased it, an idiot. ;)

[Nugget]

I just figured it was a Dutch taar file ;)