[CS-FSLUG] Command line query

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 10:26 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Thursday 20 January 2005 19:59, Brian Derr wrote:
> > The following is what I've tried.
> 
> > 1.)  wget http://ed.asisaid.com/VnE.jpg | xv -
> 
> wget -O- http://ed.asisaid.com/VnE.jpg | xv -
> 
> By default wget writes the file to disk. -O- tells it to write to stdout 
> instead. You might also need -q or something to prevent banners and 
> progress information getting underfoot. Or not.

Is that the standard way to get a program to do that or is it wget
specific? I knew about - for pulling it from stdin, but don't remember
seeing that.

Thanks,
JSR/