Hello,

thanks for Your visit, i want to ask for advice with linux Tar.

I know i can list tar contents by command: tar tf archive.tar
If its tar.gz, i can: tar tzf archive.tar.gz

But my tar.gz is 40Gb large and its whole linux filesystem.

please kindly advice me on how i can list only arcive root directory. Then i see folder name that interest me, then how i can list only that folder contents (non recursivelly) and this way browse deep into archive. Then how i can extract example folder or file /archive.tar.gz/folder/subfolder/fileorfolder

Please can You write commands?

Thank you alot

I would try:

$ tar -tf archive.tar.gz | grep -E '^\w+(\.\w+)*/*\w+(\.\w+)*/?$'

The tar command should autodetect that it's a *.gz file.

This is a case where a GUI archive manager would be a far better choice, as it can do all the things you mentioned quite naturally, and without having to re-read the entire 40 GB archive (a tar archive does not have a centralized directory) every time you found something interesting to look at more deeply.

result in no result. i mean command finish and nothin is printed to stdout

this worked, but still lsit all files recursivelly subdirectories etc..: