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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Grep through a .tar file without untarring it Post 302935456 by bakunin on Monday 16th of February 2015 05:12:22 PM
Old 02-16-2015
@agent.kgb:

You don't need GNU-tar, it is possible with a standard tar too by untarring to stdout:

Code:
 tar xf - /path/to/file.tar | grep "<what-you-search>"

@sanjaydubey2006:

As far as i can see agent.kgb (and the other people in the second thread you opened) have given you very sound advice. If you still are not able to do what you want to do there are two possible reasons:

Either you have not described your problem well. Instead of having asked for what you really want to do you asked for something you thought you might need to do what you want to do. Analysing a problem correctly at least to the point where one is able to concisely state what the problem is is trait you absolutely will need as a systems administrator - especially a UNIX systems administrator. Think about that.

Or - and this would pose an even greater problem - you absolutely have no idea how what you want to do is done and expect us to give you a turn-key solution. Now, i hate to break the news to you, but we cannot teach you the basics of script programming in specifc, programming in general and how a UNIX system works over the internet in a forum. This is simply not the right place for such an endeavour and i suggest you get a good book about this, take some classes or whatever means of getting tought about the topic is available for you. If this will leave specific questions you will be welcome to ask them here and get answers.

Second: we want to help, but we cannot do your work for you. We all have jobs of our own and cannot do yours. We can help you to help yourself but this is "UNIX for beginners", not "have your script written for you by willing volunteers".

There i suggest you rethink your attitude and/or the correlation of job requirements in contrast to your expertise and start over.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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reporter-upload

REPORTER-UPLOAD(1)						 LIBREPORT MANUAL						REPORTER-UPLOAD(1)

NAME

       reporter-upload - Uploads compressed tarball of problem directory.

SYNOPSIS

       reporter-upload [-c CONFFILE]... [-d DIR] [-u URL]

DESCRIPTION

       The tool is used to create a compressed tarball of the problem directory and upload it to a URL. Supported protocols include FTP, FTPS,
       HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP and FILE.

   Configuration file
       Configuration file contains entries in a format "Option = Value".

       The options are:

       URL
	   The URL where tarball should be uploaded.

   Integration with ABRT events
       reporter-upload can be used as a reporter, to allow users to upload compressed tarballs of problem directories to a configured URL. This
       usage can be configured in /etc/libreport/report_event.conf:

	   EVENT=report_Upload reporter-upload

       It can be also used on the post-create event to upload it automatically.

	   EVENT=post-create reporter-upload

OPTIONS

       -d DIR
	   Path to problem directory.

       -c CONFFILE
	   Path to configuration file. When used in ABRT event system, the file contains site-wide configuration. Users can change the values via
	   environment variables.

       -u URL
	   The URL where tarball should be uploaded. URL should have form protocol://[user[:pass]@]host/dir/[file.tar.gz] where protocol can be
	   http(s), ftp, scp, or file. File protocol can't have user and host parts: file.tar.gz[1]. If URL ends with a slash, the archive name
	   will be generated and appended to URL; otherwise, URL will be used as full file name.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       Environment variables take precedence over values provided in the configuration file.

       Upload_URL
	   The URL where should be the tarball uploaded.

AUTHORS

       o   ABRT team

NOTES

	1. file.tar.gz
	   file:///dir/

LIBREPORT 2.1.11						    06/18/2014							REPORTER-UPLOAD(1)
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