I dont want lftp to extract data from archives, I want it to compress it
into archive so that it occupies less space at the destination side. Is
this feasible to do in lftp?

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Alexander V. Lukyanov <l...@netis.ru>
wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 06:44:32PM +0530, akshay gupta wrote:
> > I want to store the data that is being pulled by lftp mirror job in a
> > compressed format. Is it possible that mirror function can check file
> > download status from inside of that tar, zip etc. Is it possible to
> > implement such a functionality in lftp?
>
> I don't think mirror will be able to extract compressed archives, but
> you can download the archive and extract it at the same time, like this:
>
> lftp> cat file.tar.gz | tar xv
>
> --
>    Alexander.
>
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