I've got a bad backup script including an unwanted file. The .tar.gz backup file is 5gig big and I'd like to get a list of every file in the archive and their size.
Is that possible ? How would you do it ?
This should list all files and detailed information about them:
tar -ztvf somefile.tar.gz
-t
(list) and -v
(verbose, like ls -l
use a long listing format)
Apr 9, 2018 at 21:42
.tgz
file just using -tvf
was enough.
Jul 8, 2019 at 14:25
Use
tar --list --verbose --gunzip --file backup.tar.gz > backup_list.txt
to create a file containing a list of all the files in your archive.
You can then grep foo backup_list.txt
to find things, or edit, sed, cut, view, etc.