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Or you can do "tar zvtf tarball.tar.gz |less" and the listing of the
tarball will be piped into less for your viewing.  This listing will also
reveal the directory structure within.  I didn't realize less could read
tar files.  <hmmm> have to give that a try since I also have slackware.

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi Igor -
>
> I have had that problem too. On my Slackware system the "less"
> command is installed in such a way that it automatically shows
> the files contained in a tar archive. The first file listed will
> be a directory if the  archive will be one that creates its own
> directory.
>
> If your "less" will not do that, you can always create a
> temporary directory and untar the thing in there. If it does
> create its own directory under your temporary one, you can just
> "mv" the thing to where you want it.
>
> HTH - Chuck
>
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