Comments on: How To List Files Within tgz (tar.gz) Archives

By: Carl W.

Carl W. — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:17:53 +0000

Very helpful, thank you!

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:42:50 +0000

No, that won't work – look up the usage of 'tee'

By: clive

clive — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:15:01 +0000

The code you supplied worked, thanks. If I wanted the text to appear in the terminal window as well as being piped to a text file should I add a verbose flag to the tar command? For example;
find . -name "*.tgz" -exec tar tzvf {} \; > list.txt

By: clive

clive — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:56:15 +0000

Artem Russakovskii says:
November 5, 2010 at 10:05 am

This is how I would do it:

find . -name "*.tgz" -exec tar tzf {} \; > list.txt

Thanks Artem, I'll give it a go and them try to understand the code layout.

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:05:07 +0000

This is how I would do it:

find . -name "*.tgz" -exec tar tzf {} \; > list.txt

Just tried it and it works fine (adjust it for your own extention – I used tgz).

By: clive

clive — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:55:13 +0000

How can I list the contents of multiple archives within a folder? Have tried;
for i in *; do if [ -d "$i" ]; then tar tzvf "$i".tar.gz "$i" >> tar.gz-list.txt; fi; done
but this does not work.
Any suggestions?

By: sunny

sunny — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:34:53 +0000

thanks !!!!