Live user <[email protected]> wrote:
> Either using
>
> tar -tf archive.tar
>
> OR
>
> tar --list -f archive.tar
>
> Doesn't show the trailing slash that corresponds to a dir, making
> impossible to know if the content is a directory or a file without
> having to use verbose output.
>
>
> Example: get the contents of a tar archive to a text file:
>
> tar --list -f myarchive.tar
> dir1
> dir1/data.dat
>
> Where it should be
>
> dir1/
> dir1/data.dat
No, whether or not a directory is listed with a traling slash depends on the
file name in the archive. As the original tar (note that I am talking about tar
and not gtar) from 1977 did not support directories, BSD coded them as files
with a trailing slash.
POSIX.1-1988 then introduced a directory type flag and if this is used, the
trailing slash is not needed.
If you like to distinct between directories and other files, I recommend to use
star and it's build in find(1).
star -t < filename -find -type d
lists only directories.
Jörg
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