How to read a tarball

Stephen Liu satimis at yahoo.com
Tue May 2 04:37:12 UTC 2006


Hi V.Rudenko,

Tks for your advice which works for me here.

On File-manager double-clicking the tarball (tar/jz2/ etc.) can read
its content on a new window without decompressing it.  However I could
not resolve copying a file/directory from the new window on
File-manager, always complaining no image on the clipboard.  Any
advice?

TIA

B.R.
SL


--- wld <volodimir.rudenko at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> --
> V.Rudenko




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