Re: [Lzip-bug] list the file names in .tar.lz

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hi Avinash,

avinash via Lzip-bug wrote:
> can u plz clarify,  how to list the names of individual file names in
> a lzip archive,  and alsohow to extract a specific file in lzip
> archive. ( the compressed file contains multiple files inside).

Listing and extracting files from a tar archive (compressed or not) is 
the task of the tar archiver, not of the compressor.

In the case of tar.lz archives created with tarlz (or with other tar 
archiver using the POSIX pax format), you can list and extract files 
using tarlz[1].

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/tarlz.html
    http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/tarlz_manual.html#Examples

To list 'file' from 'archive.tar.lz' use:

  tarlz -tvf archive.tar.lz file

To extract 'file' from 'archive.tar.lz' use:

  tarlz -xf archive.tar.lz file

If the tar.lz archive is not in POSIX pax format, you can list and 
extract files from it using GNU tar[2].

[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/gzip.html#SEC135


Best regards,
Antonio.