Hi John and Randy, Thanks for your advice. With the tar command I can read file/document names. But how to read the the content of a document, e.g. .doc, .gif, .txt, etc. I can start OO, Gimp, kedit, etc but could not locate the file. B.Regards Stephen On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:23, John Haxby wrote: > Stephen Liu wrote: > > >Hi all folks, > > > >Is there command line to read a tarball without decompressing it similar > >to reading an ISO image without having it burnt on CD? > > > > > Yes. tar. > > For example > > tar tf linux-2.4.22.tar > tar ztf linux-2.4.22.tar.gz > tar jtf linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2 > > "tar vtf" and similar are more verbose. See the man page for real details. > > jch > To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email Address? Go To www.iCareHK.com. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
