Friday, November 28, 2014

linux - Search through tar files for a pattern and print the full path of what's found

I have directory tree with many tar files. Each tar file contains many other files. I want to search through all the tar files for a given pattern, and print the full path of any files within a tar that are found.


I got this far:
find . -type f -name '*.tar' -exec tar tf {} \; | egrep ''


Now my problem is that the above command only prints the name of the file within the tar that it finds. Ie, the output of the above is:
pattern.jpg
foundMe.txt


I would like the output to contain also the full path and the tar name where the file was found. How would I do this?


Thank you!

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