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.
