unpacking one single file from archive

[Ed Greshko]

Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:30:20AM +0100, Paal Marker wrote:
> 
>>Another question is search for a file in a tar.gz archive.  Now I do it 
>>in a heavy way in two steps, first make a file I can search in and then 
>>make the search: 
>>
>>less y.tar.gz  |  cat >  readfile    
>>grep -n "x.doc" readfile
>>
>>.......and I get the file with full path.
>>
>>I believe there is a command for searching directly for a file and path 
>>in a tar.gz archive, but wich one is it?
> 
> 
> $ tar ztf y.tar.gz | grep x.doc
> 
>         .../Ed

Ahhh....  You probably really want...


$ tar ztf y.tar.gz | grep x\\.doc

:-)


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