Zip files from web urls without storing on a local disk

Question

I have a list of http urls http://host.com/url1 http://host.com/url2 http://host.com/url3

Each url is pointed to some file

Is there a way to compress all that files to single zip archive without downloading files locally? I don't see a way to do this with linux zip command. It allows to have list of files, but not list of urls

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Using ksh eg.

(
  for URL in http://host.com/url1 http://host.com/url2 http://host.com/url3
  do
    wget -O - -q "$URL"
  done
) | gzip -c > mysingle.zip

You now have all data zipped into one file, but not really an archive: you can't extract one of the files, you'd need to add a separator in the loop.