list tgz files

[bas1080]

Is there a way to list the contents of tgz files.

 

[p5wizard]

zcat file.tgz|tar -tvf-

or

gzcat file.tgz|tar -tvf-

or

gunzip -c file.tgz|tar -tvf-

depending on your installation (all may work)

will produce a listing of all the files in the archive

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[bas1080]

thanks for the reply.

If i want to filter out just one file out of the list of files, how can i go about.

Thanks in advance.

 

[p5wizard]

grep?

put

| grep name_of_file_you_want

at the back of the commands suggested earlier


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[bas1080]

Hi,

Currently I am looking for a script where i can store the value that is the result of grep . I have tried the below for that but it is not working correctly . test_file = zcat myname.tgz | tar -tvf - |cat /etc/inet/inetd.conf | grep lpstat

My aim is to get the entry for lpstat in each inetd.conf and store it to a directory. I am trying hard to achive this.

Help will be appreciated.

 

[stefanwagner]

Do you mean:

test_file=$(zcat myname.tgz | tar -tvf - |cat  /etc/inet/inetd.conf | grep lpstat)

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[bas1080]

with the below code
test_file=$(zcat myname.tgz | tar -tvf - |cat /etc/inet/inetd.conf | grep lpstat)

How can i put the values from the test_file to a file incrementally.

 

[stefanwagner]

I'm not sure what you're doing.
What is the output of

echo $test_file

and what do you want?

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[Trevoke]

Just do
zcat myname.tgz | tar -tvf | | cat /etc/inetd.conf | grep lpstat >> test_file

Note, this works with the Bourne Again SHell. YMMV.

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