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Old 08-23-2004
Network viewing are .tar.gz file
I have a dilema. We have a .tar.gz file that is 2.2 GB. I can't xfer to another machine with ftp, because ftp chokes on the 2 gb size. We can't uncompress the tarball either because it will blow any filesystem we have on this Sun box.

Is there a way to view or even extract certain files from the tar.gz file w/o uncompressing it, similar to the zcat with .Z files??

Thanks,
Jeff
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Old 08-23-2004
You should be able to use gzcat, e.g...

gzcat eg.tar.gz | tar tvf -
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Old 08-23-2004
When I use gzcat, I get:

Value too large for defined data type
 
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