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Listing the contents of a tar archive

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If you want to know what files are contained in a ``tarball'' (tar archive) file, made with file compression turned on (as recommended in our procedure for building tarballs), use this command:

    tar -tvzf filename
For example, if you have a tarball file named rainpics.tgz, you would use this command to list its contents:
    tar -tvzf rainpics.tgz
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Last updated: 2000/09/20 21:25:06 UT
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