I'm having problems piping wget's output on windows: wget -d http://psycle.sourceforge.net/psycle.tar.gz --quiet --output-document - | tar tz | head --lines 1 DEBUG output created by Wget 1.9.1 on Windows.
set_sleep_mode(): mode 0x80000001, rc 0x80000000 seconds 0.00, Caching psycle.sourceforge.net => 66.35.250.209 seconds 0.00, Created socket 1912. Releasing 00392F20 (new refcount 1). ---request begin--- GET /psycle.tar.gz HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.9.1 Host: psycle.sourceforge.net Accept: */* Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:13:02 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10 Last-Modified: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:36:36 GMT ETag: "5f107a-9663f-41eab434" Content-Length: 615999 Accept-Ranges: bytes Connection: close Content-Type: application/x-tar Content-Encoding: x-gzip gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Child died with signal 13 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Closing fd 1912 Regards