Just wanted to write this little shell code snippet down because I’ve been using it quite a bit. It downloads, ungzips, and untars a file without saving it using wget:

wget -O – http://example.com/file.tgz | tar xvz

Or, if you’re Mac Like Me, you’d use curl:

curl http://example.com/file.tgz | tar xvz

Beats having all those .tar.gz files laying around like dirty kleenex.