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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to grep the contents inside a tar file Post 302485452 by Whiteboard on Wednesday 5th of January 2011 09:00:20 AM
Old 01-05-2011
How to grep the contents inside a tar file
Hi All

I have searched the possibility of this options everywhere but am unable to find it in any forum.

I have a tar file inside which there are n number of files and i dont know them. I need to grep a word inside the tar file and need to know in which file the word resides.

HTML Code:
> cat a
123
456
HTML Code:
>cat b
789
000
I create a tar file one.tar containing files a and b

HTML Code:
tar -cvf one.tar a b
a a 1K
a b 1K
I used tar -tf and tar -tvf options but no luck

HTML Code:
> tar -tvf one.tar | grep 123
tar: blocksize = 6
Can someone pls help here ? Am on Sun OS m/c

Thanks
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zegrep

ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep  options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

                                                                                                                                          ZGREP(1)
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