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08-10-2006
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tar tricks
Hello there,
Is there anyway to make the tar utility print the contents of the files inside it (not list the files, but rather their contents) sequentially from the command line? What I ultimately would like to do is to have a way of printing the contents of each file in the tar archive separately to the standard input of another program through a pipe: i.e. tar -something test.tar | file_reader 
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08-10-2006
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use the man pages, man.
Code:
# man tar
TAR(1) tar TAR(1)
NAME
tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility
SYNOPSIS
tar <operation> [options]
<snip>
-O, --to-stdout
extract files to standard output
Code:
tar -xf file.tar path/in/archive/to/file
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