Ken Irving wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:42:56PM -0600, SoloCDM wrote:
>
> > Bret Hughes wrote:
> > >
> > > SoloCDM wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there an efficient way of searching tarballs for information and
> > > > displaying the filename associated with the results? I'm familiar
> > > > with most of the "z" filenames (zless, zcat, ...).
> > >
> > > I am not real sure what you are looking for but I use midnight commander
> > > to browse tarballs.
> > > type at the command line:
> > > mc
> > > and then ues the arrow keys to navigate to the tarball (enter on a
> > > directory will enter it) treat the tarball file just like a directory.
> > > You can then use the builtin editor to view files copy one out of the
> > > tarball to another place on the drive. Really quite a powerfull tool.
> >
> > My intent is to make it automated in a bash script to search for a
> > subject.
>
> Is this what you're looking for?
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> F=$1
> if [ "$F" = "" ]; then exit 1; fi
>
> PAT=$2
> if [ "$PAT" = "" ]; then PAT="."; fi
>
> less $F | grep $PAT
>
> I just use less or 'tar tzvf' to list the contents, and grep to select
> amoung them.
I'm trying to get the contents within the files of the file tar-red
and gzip-ped. I used zcat, but it lists all the contents of all the
files in the tar-red and gzip-ped file as one file; therefore, I'm not
able to discern the file that goes with the information requested.
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