Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:52:10 -0400 From: "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: listing the contents of a tar file Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0104111551360.3400257-100000@irix2.gl.umbc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010411205020.A82373@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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hey sweet thanks man. trying to learn some UNIX basics here...scripting, tarring ...etc etc Jason On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Ben Smithurst wrote: > G. Jason Middleton wrote: > > > I wanna see what is in one of my newly created tar files do do this i did > > a > > tar -list filename.tgz > > tar tzf filename.tgz > > t == list > z == zipped file > f == filename > > Add v (verbose) to get an 'ls -l' style listing. > > If you don't specify a file with the "f" flag it will use the tape drive > by default. Note that you don't need "-" before the command flags as > with most commands, tar's just a bit weird like that. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org > G. Jason Middleton _______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement: The revolution will not be televised. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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