Re: search contents of a tar.gz

[Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp>]

Brian Stults <bs7452@csc.albany.edu> writes:

> 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.

tar -tzf file.tar.gz | grep something

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Olaf Meeuwissen       Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development