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I don't know about rar ( it's a terrible program that only seems to have become popular with pirates beacuse of its ability to split into multiple smaller files ), but you can stream zip just fine. The man page even mentions it. It also has the advantage of being able to extract or update files from the middle of a large archive efficiently, though tar tends to get slightly better compression. Compression vs. random access is a tradeoff.
– psusi
Commented Mar 14, 2013 at 15:53
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@psusi incorrect. You can do hacks like this, but what it does is download all the file in memory and then unzip it, instead of unzipping while downloading. And funzip just extracts the first file in the zipfile, not all.
– Carlos Campderrós
Commented Mar 14, 2013 at 16:03
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@Stu just to clarify, is not an issue, is just optimizing your time (I don't care about space if that's what you thought)
– Carlos Campderrós
Commented Mar 15, 2013 at 8:39
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Both sides work: You can tar on one side and untar in the other, too: tar zc /some/folder | ssh user@host "cd /other/folder && tar zx"
– Carlos Campderrós
Commented Mar 15, 2013 at 8:51
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@psusi as I remember from old times when using pkzip to store files on multiple floppies, zip store catalog at end of archive. It always request last floppy for start extraction or show catalog. So en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ZIP-64_Internal_Layout.svg
– Mikhail Moskalev
Commented Mar 15, 2013 at 23:06

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