Redirect text file content from tar archive to stdout (without extract it)

[Maxbester]

Hi,

I have a TAR archive that contains several text files. I would like to write a script to display (stdout) the content of a file without extracting it in 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 -xOf myArchive.tar folder/someFile.txt

Thanks

[Dennis Handly]

-O only works with gtar:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.26/

[Maxbester]

I do not have gtar, so what should I do to have the same behaviour?

[Patrick Wallek]

I am not aware of a way to make the HP-UX native 'tar' do this.  I do not think it is possible.

If you really need to do this, you can get 'gtar' from the link supplied by Dennis above.

[Dennis Handly]

>I do not have gtar, so what should I do to have the same behaviour?

You get the same software, gtar.

Or write a script to extract to a temp file using pax, cat, then remove.

[Maxbester]

@Dennis Handly: right, this is what I am going to do. Thanks