how to find a specific file over several *.tgz files

eeyoree · 08-08-2004, 02:35 AM

let say i was in a directory with many .tgz files

now, i want to find a file, let say: 'libXm.so.2'
(i know the file were somewhere on that many .tgz files)

how to do that without open the file one by one?

gbonvehi · 08-08-2004, 03:09 AM

You're looking for something like whichpkg: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...light=whichpkg

Ninaw · 08-08-2004, 04:10 AM

i've written a rather crude script to do just that, just modify it if you want
save it as tgzfind and make it executable (chmod u+x tgzfind)

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# tgzfind
# a very crude script to find a file from a dozen gz archives
# usage: tgzfind <directory> <search string>

if [ -d $1 ]; then
        cd $1
        for file in *gz; do
                hah=`tar -tvzf $file`
                echo $hah | grep --silent $2
                if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                        echo The file you are looking for is in $file
                fi
        done
fi

Cedrik · 08-08-2004, 04:15 AM

You can try in the directory :

Code:

for file in `ls *.tgz`; do
    if tar tzvf $file | grep libXm.so.2; then
        echo "found in $file !"
    fi
done

[edit]
Ouch ! Ninaw was faster than me

Ninaw · 08-08-2004, 04:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cedrik
You can try in the directory :

Code:

for file in `ls *.tgz`; do if tar tzvf $file | grep libXm.so.2; then echo "found in $file !" fi done

[edit]
Ouch ! Ninaw was faster than me

at least yours is shorter

eeyoree · 08-08-2004, 06:13 AM

well, thank you everyone. i'll try them all

Cerbere · 08-09-2004, 12:37 AM

If you're talking about original Slackware packages, then you can look through the MANIFEST.bz2 file in the /slackware directory of the install disc. It lists every file in every package.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere