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How can I remove the leading path from a tar and retar it in memory?

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I was thinking I could do something like this: to remove the leading path from all items in the downloaded tar, but it appears that there is no way to create a tar from stdin. Please prove me wrong.

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wget -O- http://example.com/funky.tar.gz | \
  tar --strip-components 1 -Ox | tar -cf fixed.tar.gz

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You most certainly can create a tar from stdin. Use as the source, and pipe whatever you want to tar into it. http://ss64.com/bash/tar.html http://www.google.com/search?q=tar+stdin

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