HP-UX - How can I read a text file from tar archive without extracting it?
Question
I have a tar
archive which contains several text files. I would like to write a script to display (stdout) the content of a file without extracting it to the current directory.
Actually I would like to do the same as:
tar tf myArchive.tar folder/someFile.txt
cat folder/someFile.txt
rm -R folder
but without the rm
...
I tried this way but it didn't work:
tar tf myArchive.tar folder/someFile.txt | cat
Thanks
Solution
Use x
to extract, with f
from archive file. Then add also option -O
to direct extracted files to standard output.
tar xf myArchive.tar folder/someFile.txt -O
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