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Old 12-18-2007
tar.gz zip file.....
Hi,
i have tar.gz file in inbound director.
i want display the contents on the tar.gz file in a temp file.
please help me on this.
# 2  
Old 12-18-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by koti_rama
i want display the contents on the tar.gz file in a temp file.
Code:
gunzip <the.tar.gz | tar tf - >tempfile

# 3  
Old 12-18-2007
If you are using the gnu version of tar you can use

tar -ztvf tar.gz
# 4  
Old 12-18-2007
this command all orginal date store in base location( were we did zip).
i want all data store in temp file from tar.gz file.
# 5  
Old 12-18-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by koti_rama
this command all orginal date store in base location( were we did zip).
i want all data store in temp file from tar.gz file.
You mean extract into a directory?

Code:
cd target-directory
gunzip <path-to-tar.gz | tar xf -

 
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