Re: OT tarball question

[John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Liu wrote:

> Hi all folks,
>
> Is there command line to read a tarball without decompressing it similar
> to reading an ISO image without having it burnt on CD?
>  
Yes.   tar.

For example

      tar tf linux-2.4.22.tar
      tar ztf linux-2.4.22.tar.gz
      tar jtf linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2

"tar vtf" and similar are more verbose.   See the man page for real details.



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