Re: search contents of a tar.gz
If you have Midnight Commander (mc) installed, you can
see the contents of a tar.gz file natively. If you need
to read a specific file, mc does a temporary extract of
the same and displays it for you.
If you have kde installed, kfm does the same.
USM Bish
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:18:37PM -0700, mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu wrote:
>
> |> 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.
>
> If you use emacs, you can just visit the compressed tar file and
> operate on it like any directory-tree. For example, put FOO.tar.gz in
> some directory DIR. Ctl-x d DIR to run dired (the directory editor) on
> DIR, move the cursor to FOO.tar.gz and type f. The contents of the
> tarball will be displayed in the dired buffer and you can operate on
> the files as if they had been uncompressed and extracted from the
> archive, even though they haven't.
>
> Jim
>
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