Many download links (like those from GitHub or SourceForge) use redirects. If you don't use the -L flag, curl may download a tiny HTML file instead of the actual archive. curl -L -O https://github.com Use code with caution. 3. Download and Extract in One Command
You can avoid saving the .tar.gz file to your disk entirely by piping the output of curl directly into the tar command. curl -L https://example.com/archive.tar.gz | tar -xz Use code with caution. Extract to a specific directory: Use the -C flag with tar . tar file download curl
curl -L https://example.com/archive.tar.gz | tar -xz -C /path/to/destination Use code with caution. 4. Handling Authenticated Downloads Many download links (like those from GitHub or