Post #1384934

nc is useful. For example: if you have a disk image downloaded on computer A but want to write it to an SD card on computer B, you can run something like user@B: nc -l 1234 | pv > /dev/$sdcard And user@A: nc B.local 1234 < /path/to/image.img (I may have syntax messed up–also don’t transfer sensitive information this way!) Similarly, no need to store a compressed file if you’re going to uncompress it as soon as you download it—just pipe wget or curl to tar or xz or whatever. I once burnt a CD of a Linux ISO by wgeting directly to cdrecord. It was actually kinda useful because it was on a laptop that was running out of HD space. Luckily the University Internet was fast and the CD was successfully burnt :)