List the contents of a tar or tar.gz file
Q. How do I list the contents of a tar or tar.gz file?
A. GNU/tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile. You can create a tar file or compressed tar file tar. However sometime you need to list the contents of a tar or tar.gz file on screen before extracting the all files.
Task: List the contents of a tar file
Use the following command:
$ tar -tvf file.tar
Task: List the contents of a tar.gz file
Use the following command:
$ tar -ztvf file.tar.gz
Task: List the contents of a tar.bz2 file
Use the following command:
$ tar -jtvf file.tar.bz2
Where,
- t: List the contents of an archive
- v: Verbosely list files processed (display detailed information)
- z: Filter the archive through gzip so that we can open compressed (decompress) .gz tar file
- j: Filter archive through bzip2, use to decompress .bz2 files.
- f filename: Use archive file called filename
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