Hi All,

how can I list the files in a bz2 archive? (not a tar)

Thanks

see

This is what bzip2 --help gives me:

-h --help print this message
-d --decompress force decompression
-z --compress force compression
-k --keep keep (don't delete) input files
-f --force overwrite existing output files
-t --test test compressed file integrity
-c --stdout output to standard out
-q --quiet suppress noncritical error messages
-v --verbose be verbose (a 2nd -v gives more)
-L --license display software version & license
-V --version display software version & license
-s --small use less memory (at most 2500k)
-1 .. -9 set block size to 100k .. 900k
--fast alias for -1
--best alias for -9

I assume you are suggesting I use one of the above flags to list the file contents. Which one?

Thanks

-t
Not so much to see content as to see where an install will place which files.
If wanting to see what the file contains, use an archive manager like xarchiver and just click on the file (careful not to install)or open the archiver and place the file in it.

Looking at http://linux.die.net/man/1/bzcat (& http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-li...nts-of-tarbz2/) I'm pretty sure that bzip2 is just a compression algorithm, ie it does not create archives of many files saved in one big file, but individually compresses each file separately, in the same manner as gzip.

Of course someone could have sent you an archive (technically a .tar.bz2 or .tbz2) & just called it blah.bz2.
Easiest way to check is
http://linux.die.net/man/1/file

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Chris:
Thanks, not a tar unfortunately.

What does the file cmd say?

you don't want to extract?

if you want to extract check out this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2-file-161371/

if you want to just list the files, try this link: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-li...nts-of-tarbz2/

use bzcat. If you do you can read about bzcat. It is like cat but for bz2 files

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