bashwgetunzip

How to unzip a piped zip file (from "wget -qO-")?

Any ideas on how to unzip a piped zip file like this:

wget -qO- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.2.5.3.zip

I wished to unzip the file to a directory, like we used to do with a normal file:

wget -qO- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.2.5.3.zip | unzip -d ~/Desktop
Solution 
  • wget -q -O tmp.zip http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.2.5.3.zip && unzip tmp.zip && rm tmp.zip