catcomp
Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 28 December 2016
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NAME
catcomp - cat a file to stdout out of a compressed archive file
SYNOPSIS
edrc/bin/catcomp
[
-h
]
catcomp
file path
AVAILABILITY
WA2L/edrc
DESCRIPTION
With
catcomp
you cat a file out of a
compressed archive without decompressing the whole archive file. To list
the contents of an archive file use the
lscomp
or
llcomp
command.
OPTIONS
- -h
-
usage message
- file
-
filename of the compressed archive file. This file is a file
with the suffixes
.tgz,
.tar.gz,
.tar.bz,
.tar.bz2,
.tar.Z,
.tar.zip,
.cpio,
.cpio.gz,
.cpio.bz,
.cpio.bz2,
.cpio.xz,
.cpio.Z,
.cpio.zip,
.depot.gz,
.depot,
.epub,
.zip,
.jar,
.whl,
.rock,
.rpm,
.deb
or
.bw.
- path
-
complete path and filename of the file inside the archive you like to
display.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables influence the behavior of the
catcomp
command:
- $TMPDIR
-
if you like to display files that are bigger then the free disk space
available in
/tmp
this variable has to be set to a directory with sufficient disk space
available. You have to ensure that the directory you specify exists
and is writeable by the user invoking the
catcomp
command.
EXIT STATUS
- 1
-
specified archive file not found.
- 2
-
file format of specified archive file not recognized.
The file format is determined by the file suffix only.
- 4
-
usage displayed.
- 5
-
file not found in archive. If this error occurs, try also
lscomp filename
to figure out if the archive is probably corrupt.
- 6
-
error while decompressing a compressed archive. This error
occurs if the file is not compressed with the command that
is normally assigned with the file suffix.
For instance: the file
my_archive.tar.gz
was not really compressed with
gzip
or the file is corrupt.
SEE ALSO
edrcintro(1),
lscomp(1),
llcomp(1),
ar(1),
bzip2(1),
bwcreate(1),
bwcompare(1),
zip(1),
unzip(1),
compress(1),
cpio(1),
dpkg(1),
rpm(1),
jar(1),
tar(1),
gzip(1),
xz(1)
BUGS
-
AUTHOR
catcomp was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions
and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2008
Christian Walther
This is free software; see
edrc/doc/COPYING
for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not
even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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