Ways to list the content of a tar file
Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tutorials July 27th, 2007You 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
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