How to read a tarball

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 5/1/06, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> FC5_64
>
> Please advise how to read a tarball without decompressing it?

$ tar -tf filename.tar

or

$ tar -ztf filename.tar.gz

or

$ tar -jtf filename.tar.bz2

You might want to pipe it through more or less.

--
Chris

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