The Room Do I dare disturb the universe?

Necessary Evil

Necessary Evil

$> alias tarcat="perl5 -MArchive::Tar -e 'print Archive::Tar->new(shift)->get_content(shift)'" $> tarcat mytarball.tar.gz filename

Now you can cat a specific file from inside the tarball… requires IO::Zlib and Archive::Tar though but hey … it works!