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. -- 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
