Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
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. Specificall

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread USM Bish
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. USM Bish On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:18:37PM -07

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:05:06AM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > I would like to grep the contents to find the CD that I'm looking for, > but I don't want to extract everything. It sounds like you're looking for 'zgrep' which is included with gzip. -- // André

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread mcclosk
|> 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 t

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
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 > dis

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-05 Thread kmself
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

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
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

Re: search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-04 Thread Mark Bialik
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 w

search contents of a tar.gz

2000-09-04 Thread Brian Stults
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 th