What is the way to list files in a gz file?

[Dan Tingley]

I made a 11.23 hp-ux gold image for the server, which is a gz file. Now I want to know what is in it. Is there a way to find it out?

[Aashique]

Hi,
You are confusing something. In gzip it compress single file extension will be "gz".

And in tar u can see the list of files.

But the extension must be ".tar"
if your file is a.tar.gz
first gunzip a.tar.gz
then, tar tvf a.tar

with the "t" option you can see the list without extract it.


Thanks & Regards

Aashique

[Steven Schweda]

I don't know what's in an "hp-ux gold image",
but you can always try feeding it into
various programs to see if anyone can make
sense of it:

gzip -dc file.gz | tar tfv -

and so on.

[Steven Schweda]

> first gunzip a.tar.gz
> then, tar tvf a.tar

You must have _much_ more unused disk space
than I.

[Patrick Wallek]

No reason to gunzip the file before using tar on it.

Try this:

gzcat filename | tar -tvf -

(Note there is a space between the 'f' and the second '-')

You could then redirect that output to a file or just pipe it to more.

[Dan Tingley]

I opened a call to hp, that is what they told me and it works for me.

gunzip < file.gz | tar -tvf -

[Steven Schweda]

Well, that's three ways to spell it.

The salient fact here is that it's a
gzip-compressed "tar" archive, so if you know
how to deal with one of those, you're left
with only the ever-difficult decision of
exactly how you'd like to run gzip (or gzcat,
or gunzip).

[OldSchool]

Option 4: ....or the ever popular GNU tar...