Checking contents of a tar archive

Last revision July 20, 2004

To see what files are included in your tar archive, use the t operation. It is recommend to add the v option to get a verbose listing with file date and size, as well as name.

For example, if you had an archive in the file /scr1/files.tar on disk, you could list the contents of that archive with

tar tvf /scr1/files.tar > tarfilelist

In this example, you have redirected the output (the listing of files) to a disk file so it won't just fly by on your screen and you can study or print it at you leisure.

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