search contents of a tar.gz

[Brian Stults <bs7452@csc.albany.edu>]

Is there a way to search the contents of a tar.gz file withouth having
to extract everything.  Specifically, I want to determine the disc-id of
an audio CD, so I downloaded the freedb database in tar.gz format.  Of
course, it's a very large file.  I would like to grep the contents to
find the CD that I'm looking for, but I don't want to extract
everything.  I thought there would be a series of piped commands that
would allow me to do it, but I can't figure it out.

Thanks.
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Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652  Fax: (518) 442-4936
Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452