How to read a tarball

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On 5/2/06, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Well, with tar in FC5, you don't need -z and -j options

$ tar -tf filename.tar.bz2
$ tar -tf filename.tar.gz

just work.

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