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Can somebody help me to figure out a command to find a file recursively that is embedded in a tgz file which is within another tgz files recursively:

MainFile.tgz → SubFile1.tgz → SubFile2.tgz → SubFile3.tgz → abc.txt

My goal is to be able to list abc.txt without extracting MainFile.tgz nor SubFileX.tgz.

The command below is only listing the first level of files (i.e. SubFile.tgz); therefore the grep command cannot find abc.txt in the list:

tar tvf MainFile.tgz | grep abc
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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You need to extract them, but you don't need to store them on the disk :

tar -xOf MainFile.tgz SubFile1.tgz | tar -xO SubFile2.tgz | tar -xO SubFile3.tgz | tar -x abc.txt

The -O flags sets output to stdout and without -f tar will accept archive data from stdin.

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