Retreive content from txt file inside tar.gz archive

PHP
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Hi there,

Is it possible to retreive the content inside a txt file that’s located on an anonymous ftp server inside a tar.gz archive (if so, how)?

Cheers,
Peter

2

Ah, thank you very much — I’ll look into it :slight_smile:

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I am not a php developer so won’t be able to advise you php way of doing it but you can extract the txt file from the tar.gz and then read its contents.

tar --gzip --extract --file=backup_file.tar.gz /path/to/file.txt

You may use exec or system function to execute the tar command to do that.