You have two choices
1. untar the tarball somewhere temporarily, grep the files, remove the
temp files
2. list the tarball contents, iterate over the list and extract the files
one at a time (to stdout) and pipe it through your filter. This way you
know the name and contents of each file. It will most likely be a lot
slower, but will not require any disk space.
hth
charles
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, SoloCDM wrote:
> 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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