Searching within a TAR file

[Eddiefdz]

Hello,

I am looking for a particular file that can be anywhere inside a couple of hundred tar files. So what I need to do is be able to search for that file name within those tar files without having to decompress the tarfiles and searching manually. Is there any way to do that in linux.

Thanks

Eddie Fernandez
CCNA, Network+, A+, MCP

 

[ericbrunson]

for file in tarfiles* ; do tar tvf $file | grep -q filename && print $file ; done

You would have to use tzvf if they are compressed with gzip, but you don't have to extract (as opposed to decompress) them.

 

[stefanwagner]

...or for gziped files you may use zgrep.

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