Hi! On Thu Apr 24, 2003 at 11:28:45PM -0500, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Is there a way to loop mount a .zip or .tgz file so that I can look > inside without having to unzip or untar? In other words, what exactly is > the requirement on a file for it to be loop mountable. See mount(8). Only filesystem images are loopback mountable (eg. ISO images, floppy images, ...). A quick way to look into zip, tar.gz, ... is using less. Insert following line into your .bashrc (or whatever shell you are using): eval $(lesspipe) and after resourcing your .bashrc ($ source ~/.bashrc) you are able to use less as nearly everything viewer. so long Thomas -- .''`. Obviously we do not want to leave zombies around. - W. R. Stevens : :' : Thomas Krennwallner <djmaecki at ull dot at> `. `'` 1024D/67A1DA7B 9484 D99D 2E1E 4E02 5446 DAD9 FF58 4E59 67A1 DA7B `- http://bigfish.ull.at/~djmaecki/
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