Fli
07-27-2014, 10:58 AM
Hello,
i have 40gb large tar.gz archive with huge directory trees. Please can anyone advice on how to list this archive contents without taking server resources to extract entire archive?
I would prefer if i can list only root directory. like:
archive.tar.gz :
docs
images
videos
games
file1
file2
file3
then when i see what is inside root, i want to example list only /docs folder content, but not list subdirectories and sub files of that docs folder..
Also please how to extract only certain directory/es or file/s from this archive?
Thank you
UPDATE:
one can try this to list only certain directory:
tar --list --verbose --no-recursion --file=archive.tgz ./foldernametolist/*
or
tar tf archive.tgz ./foldernametolist/*
to extract some folder:
tar xf archive.tgz ./folder/subfolder_to_extract/
i have 40gb large tar.gz archive with huge directory trees. Please can anyone advice on how to list this archive contents without taking server resources to extract entire archive?
I would prefer if i can list only root directory. like:
archive.tar.gz :
docs
images
videos
games
file1
file2
file3
then when i see what is inside root, i want to example list only /docs folder content, but not list subdirectories and sub files of that docs folder..
Also please how to extract only certain directory/es or file/s from this archive?
Thank you
UPDATE:
one can try this to list only certain directory:
tar --list --verbose --no-recursion --file=archive.tgz ./foldernametolist/*
or
tar tf archive.tgz ./foldernametolist/*
to extract some folder:
tar xf archive.tgz ./folder/subfolder_to_extract/