kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:10:50PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > Note that this requires processing the archive (including uncompressing > it), but that data need not be stored persistantly anywhere. This > should fit the parameters of the request, but if the question is "can I > avoid decompression CPU overhead, the answer is "no".
True. I had developed a habit of first running `tar -tzf` after I got hit by a few archives that didn't extract into their own directory and puked all over the current one, until I found out about `tar -C`. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
