In Unix- Linux , the name of the tar command is short for tape archiving, the storing of entire file systems onto magnetic tape, which is one use for the command. However, a more common use for tar is to simply combine a few files into a single file, for easy storage and distribution.
The tar command used to rip a collection of files and directories into highly compressed archive file commonly called tarball or tar, gzip and bzip in Unix – Linux. The tar is most widely used command to create compressed archive files and that can be moved easily from one disk to another disk or machine to machine.
8. List Content tar.gz Archive File
To list the contents of tar archive file, just run the following command with option t (list content). The below command will list the content of emrepics.tar file.
[root@cent ~]# tar -tvf emrepics.tar drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2018-03-21 11:57 emre/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 0 2018-03-21 11:57 emre/emrepics1.jpg -rw-r--r-- root/root 0 2018-03-21 11:57 emre/emrepics2.jpg -rw-r--r-- root/root 0 2018-03-21 11:57 emre/emrepics3.jpg
