UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello there,

Is there anyway to make the tar utility print the contents of the files inside it (not list the files, but rather their contents) sequentially from the command line?

What I ultimately would like to do is to have a way of printing the contents of each file in the tar archive separately to the standard input of another program through a pipe:

i.e.

tar -something test.tar | file_reader

use the man pages, man.

Code:

# man tar
TAR(1)                                tar                               TAR(1)



NAME
       tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility

SYNOPSIS
       tar <operation> [options]
<snip>
      -O, --to-stdout
              extract files to standard output

As for printing each file seperately, you can extract a specific file from a tar with

Code:

tar -xf file.tar path/in/archive/to/file

Thanks that helped.... maaan!