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How To List Files Within tgz (tar.gz) Archives
Posted by Artem Russakovskii on April 26th, 2008 in Linux
This may not be very obvious but this is the command line to list files within a tar.gz archive on the fly:
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tar -tzf file.tar.gz |
-t: lists files
-f: instructs tar to deal with the following filename (file.tar.gz)
-z: informs tar that the it's dealing with a gzip file (-j if it's bzip2)
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