I have a tar.gz which have pdfs in it I want to open a specific pdf without extracting it Is this possible using terminal through some command (I know we can do it using GUI but I want to use terminal)
To list (not-open) files in archive without extracting, run following command:
tar -tf myarchive.tar.gz
To extract and open directly run following command:
tar -xzf myarchive.tar.gz && evince *.pdf
For quick process: (extacted in /tmp/mypdf and then removed)
mkdir /tmp/mypdf && tar -xzf myarchive.tar.gz -C /tmp/mypdf && cd /tmp/mypdf && evince *.pdf && cd .. && rm -r mypdf
Where myarchive.tar.gz is your sample archive name.
For extracting specific file,
mkdir /tmp/mypdf && tar -xzf myarchive.tar.gz -C /tmp/mypdf "<file.pdf>" && cd /tmp/mypdf && evince *.pdf && cd .. && rm -r mypdf
where "<file.pdf>" is file-name of that specific file you want to extract & open.
Hope it is helpful. For advance function scripted command is useful by running script for specific purpose.
