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

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Published on 2010-03-15T05:32:14Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 5:39 UTC
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I was thinking I could do something like this:

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

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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