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Operating Systems Linux Slackware Looking for a file within a given slackware distribution. Post 302757871 by jim mcnamara on Friday 18th of January 2013 06:21:29 AM

01-18-2013

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A lot of the distribution files for linux are in the form of either somefile.tgz (sometimes somefile.tar.gz) or somefile.tar.bz2

These are compressed archives that cannot read directly.
mount your cd
for tgz and tar.gz files

Code:

cd /path/to/cdrom 
find . -name '*.tgz'  -exec tar tfz {} \; | grep foo
find . -name '*.tar.gz' - exec gzcat {} \; | tar tf - | grep foo

for bz2 files, ( .tbz, tar.bz2 etc. ) use

Code:

cd /path/to/cdrom
find . -name '*.bz2' -exec bzcat {} \;  | tar tf | grep foo

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dscextract

DSCEXTRACT(1)                                                 General Commands Manual                                                DSCEXTRACT(1)

NAME

       dscextract - extract a single file from a Debian source package

SYNOPSIS

       dscextract [options] dscfile file

DESCRIPTION

       dscextract  reads  a  single  file  from  a  Debian  source  package.   The idea is to only look into .diff.gz files (source format 1.0) or
       .debian.tar.gz/bz2 files (source format 3.0) where possible, hence avoiding to unpack large tarballs.  It is most useful for files  in  the
       debian/ subdirectory.

       file is relative to the first level directory contained in the package, i.e. with the first component stripped.

OPTIONS

       -f     "Fast"  mode.  For source format 1.0, avoid to fall back scanning the .orig.tar.gz file if file was not found in the .diff.gz.  (For
              3.0 packages, it is assumed that debian/* are exactly the contents of debian.tar.gz/bz2.)

EXIT STATUS

       0      file was extracted.

       1      file was not found in the source package.

       2      An error occurred, like dscfile was not found.

EXAMPLE

       dscextract dds_2.1.1+ddd105-2.dsc debian/watch || test $? = 1

AUTHOR

       dscextract was written by Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>.

DEBIAN                                                           Debian Utilities                                                    DSCEXTRACT(1)