Please follow postfix reply once established. On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:06:18PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:18:37PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. > > > > 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.
Eazel also has this capability AFAIK. Each of these methods (mc, emacs, kfm) required uncompressing the archive to disk, generally /tmp. It's very convenient (I've come to love mc in the past month or so), but it's not always practical. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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