# ptargrep > Find regular expression patterns in tar archive files. > More information: . - Search for a pattern within one or more `tar` archives: `ptargrep "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}` - Extract to the current directory using the basename of the file from the archive: `ptargrep --basename "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}` - Search for a case-insensitive pattern matching within a `tar` archive: `ptargrep --ignore-case "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}`