Re: [Skunkworks] Searching for a string inside a tar file

Go to ua terminal window and use the 'cat' command as appropriate to your shell type. Hope this helps. 8-) On 6/26/09, Walter Onyango <wakello@gmail.com> wrote:

Good evening,

I have several tar files each containing a number of text files in a debian box. is it possible to search for a specific string in the files and output that line plus two lines before and after that?

Kindly assist.

-- Wakello

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