Re: search contents of a tar.gz

[Mark Bialik <mbialik@infinityhealthcare.com>]

Try the zcat package.

man zcat

Mark


> 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.