how to see the content of a particular file in .tar.gz archive without unzipping the contents?

for ex abc.tar.gz has

abc/file1.txt
abc/file2.txt
abc/abc1/file3.txt
abc/abc2/file4.txt

i need to read/display the contents of file3.txt without extracting the file.

Thanks for any input.

How can I view the contents of a tar gz file without extracting it?

Use -t switch with tar command to list content of a archive. tar file without actually extracting. You can see that output is pretty similar to the result of ls -l command.

How do I open a gz file without unzipping it in Linux?

If you need to check the contents of a compressed text file on Linux, you don't have to uncompress it first. Instead, you can use a zcat or bzcat command to extract and display file contents while leaving the file intact. The "cat" in each command name tells you that the command's purpose is to display content.

import tarfile
spam = tarfile.open( "abc.tar.gz" )
if "abc/abc1/file3.txt" in spam.getnames():
    with spam.extractfile( "abc/abc1/file3.txt" ) as ham:
        print ham.read()

See tarfile.