viewing files/directories in side tarballs/tgz files

[John Heim]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso at themuso.com>
To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: viewing files/directories in side tarballs/tgz files


> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 04:32:47PM EST, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a tgz file on my system. I don't want to extract it to see what's 
>> in
>> it. So is there a way I can check what's in it like files directories 
>> etc?
>
> If you read the tar manpage, you will find a command-line argument to do 
> just that.
> -- 
> Luke Yelavich


Hear, hear! I almost sent the very same reply. Daniel, for your own good, 
it's time you started reading the documentation before posting here.