(tar)How to List Archives

How to Extract Members from an Archive

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How to List Archives
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   Use `--list' (`-t') to print the names of members stored in an
archive.  Use a `--file=ARCHIVE-NAME' (`-f ARCHIVE-NAME') option just
as with `--create' (`-c') to specify the name of the archive.  For
example, the archive `afiles.tar' created in the last section could be
examined with the command `tar --list --file=afiles.tar'.  The output
of `tar' would then be:

     apple
     angst
     asparagus

   The archive `bfiles.tar' would list as follows:

     ./baloons
     baboon
     ./bodacious

   (Of course, `tar --list --file=empty-archive.tar' would produce no
output.)

   If you use the `--verbose' (`-v') option with `--list' (`-t'), then
`tar' will print out a listing reminiscent of `ls -l', showing owner,
file size, and so forth.

   You can also specify member names when using `--list' (`-t').  In
this case, `tar' will only list the names of members you identify.  For
example, `tar --list --file=afiles.tar apple' would only print `apple'.
It is essential when specifying member names to `tar' that you give
the exact member names.  For example, `tar --list --file=bfiles
baloons' would produce no output, because there is no member named
`baloons', only one named `./baloons'.  While the file names `baloons'
and `./baloons' name the same file, member names are compared using a
simplistic name comparison, in which an exact match is necessary.

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