List the contents of tar gz file
tar command is archiving utility. Something, you can retrieve extension .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 file. How to list the contents this without extracting from command line.
The syntax tar command as below:
List content specified
man page for tar command
The syntax tar command as below:
tar OPTION File_NameWith OPTION:
- t, --list : List the contents of an archive
- v : Verbosely list files processed
- j : Filter archive through bzip2
- f : filename
List the contents of .tar.gz file
To use tar command for .tar.gz as following:$ tar -tvf links-2.12.tar.gzThe output of links-2.12.tar.gz file as below:
-rwxr--r-- 1000/1000 1215 2001-10-05 14:03 links-2.12/mailcap.pl
-rwxr-xr-- 1000/1000 4654 2015-06-28 22:13 links-2.12/rebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 461 2003-05-06 01:10 links-2.12/links_16x16_1.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 2410 2003-05-06 01:10 links-2.12/links_32x32.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 3847 2005-03-01 00:16 links-2.12/links-48x48.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 1045 2015-08-01 04:30 links-2.12/mk-release-os2
-rwxr-xr-x 1000/1000 1574 2015-07-25 23:53 links-2.12/mk-release-win
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 978 2015-08-22 22:08 links-2.12/mk-dos
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 6413 2015-07-25 23:53 links-2.12/links.nsi
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 6521 2015-07-25 23:53 links-2.12/links64.nsi
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 4630 2015-09-21 04:37 links-2.12/INSTALL
List content specified
$ tar -tvf links-2.12.tar.gz | grep links_16x16_1.xpmThe output as below:
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 461 2003-05-06 01:10 links-2.12/links_16x16_1.xpm
List the contents of .tar.bz2 file
To use tar command for .tar.bz2 as following:$ tar -jtvf links-2.14.tar.bz2The output as below:
-rwxr--r-- 1000/1000 1215 2001-10-05 14:03 links-2.14/mailcap.pl
-rwxr-xr-- 1000/1000 4654 2016-05-01 21:31 links-2.14/rebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 461 2003-05-06 01:10 links-2.14/links_16x16_1.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 2410 2003-05-06 01:10 links-2.14/links_32x32.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 3847 2005-03-01 00:16 links-2.14/links-48x48.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 1048 2016-06-17 05:45 links-2.14/mk-release-os2
-rwxr-xr-x 1000/1000 1647 2016-11-03 00:54 links-2.14/mk-release-win
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 967 2016-06-20 01:55 links-2.14/mk-dos
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 7334 2016-11-03 00:54 links-2.14/links.nsi
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 7444 2016-11-03 00:54 links-2.14/links64.nsi
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 4630 2016-11-27 03:58 links-2.14/INSTALL
man page for tar command
$ man tar
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