How do I download a tarball from GitHub using cURL?

Question

I am trying to download a tarball from GitHub using cURL, but it does not seem to be redirecting:

$ curl --insecure https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/         


        

Answer 1

You can also use wget to »untar it inline«. Simply specify stdout as the output file (-O -):

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/pinard/Pymacs/tarball/v0.24-beta2 -O - | tar xz