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Ion42

11-12-2006 10:57 AM

Listing directories only from tar file?

I have a rather large (~31 GB) tar file, a backup of /home on a server.
What i want to do i list the contents of this file but only the directories.

I know that "tar -tvf backup.tar" lists all the files but i don't know how to make it list only the directories.

Anybody have any good advice?

matthewg42

11-12-2006 11:07 AM

Just append this to your existing command (which already has the v (verbose) and t (list) options:

Code:

|grep ^d

Ion42

11-12-2006 11:27 AM

Thanks a lot :)

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