To download a file from the web and send its contents to standard out, try this:
wget -O - -o /dev/null https://www.unconfusable.com
To download a file from the web and send its contents to standard out, try this:
wget -O - -o /dev/null https://www.unconfusable.com
You can use a parameter to the -x command line switch to tell the tar command that you just want to extract one particular file from the archive. For example:
$ tar -x filename/to/extract -f tarfile.tar
You can use the -O command line switch in conjunction with the above to have the file’s contents printed on stdout rather than created in the file system.