some nice commands

[sberg]

Mulley, Nikhil writes: 

> FYI.
> example of tar to list , found it from one of my friends
> => listing archive. 
> 
> /usr/local/gnu/bin/tar -z --list --file=/juno/defunct/users/lsundar.tar.gz

I usually just use "tar -tf filename.tar" which gives you a list of all 
files in a tarball.  If it's a big tarball and I'm looking for more than one 
file I'll redirect to a text file and then search from within vi or grep it. 

The -tf is a few keystrokes shorter at least. 

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