Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all,

there are more than 10 files with .tar.gz extension in my folder i didnt want to extract them i just want to run the query to fetch my necessary data from all the files.

but when i run the command it untar the files in that folder.

Code:

gunzip -c abc.tar.gz | tar -xf - | grep REC | xargs cat | more

is there any way to cat all those file, later i can run my desired query to fetch records

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gunzip -c abc.tar.gz | tar -xf - | xargs cat | more