tar: list dir
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1 Listing the Contents of a Stored Directory
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1 To get information about the contents of an archived directory, use the
1 directory name as a file name argument in conjunction with '--list'
1 ('-t'). To find out file attributes, include the '--verbose' ('-v')
1 option.
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1 For example, to find out about files in the directory 'practice', in
1 the archive file 'music.tar', type:
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1 $ tar --list --verbose --file=music.tar practice
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1 'tar' responds:
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1 drwxrwxrwx myself/user 0 1990-05-31 21:49 practice/
1 -rw-r--r-- myself/user 42 1990-05-21 13:29 practice/blues
1 -rw-r--r-- myself/user 62 1990-05-23 10:55 practice/folk
1 -rw-r--r-- myself/user 40 1990-05-21 13:30 practice/jazz
1 -rw-r--r-- myself/user 10240 1990-05-31 21:49 practice/collection.tar
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1 When you use a directory name as a file name argument, 'tar' acts on
1 all the files (including sub-directories) in that directory.
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