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Old 01-16-2015
How to check tar file record?
Hi Guys,

I had some file which that I made tar their, now I need to know tar file record then how to find it.
# 2  
Old 01-16-2015
Hello aditya321,

If I understood requirement correctly you can use following command to check records in tar file.
Code:
tar --list --file=TEST1.tar
Syntax is tar --list --file=archive-name

In my case output is as follows.
Code:
TEST1/
TEST1/test20
TEST1/test19
TEST1/test17
TEST1/test16
TEST1/test46.ksh
TEST1/sort
TEST1/TEST121
TEST1/TEST12.tar

NOTE: I have tested this command in bash.

Thanks,
R. Singh
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# 3  
Old 01-16-2015
Still I could not understand, please give some more hints.
my tar file name is 1_abs_13jan15.tar.gz
then how to find our record.
# 4  
Old 01-16-2015
If you want to list the contents of your file (you have gzipped tar) try:-

tar -tvzf 1_abs_13jan15.tar.gz

Hope this helps.

Thanks, Steve.
# 5  
Old 01-16-2015
Hello aaditya321,

Could you please try following and let me know if this helps, you can refer man tar for same also.
Code:
Syntax: tar tzvf my-archive.tar.gz
tar tzvf 1_abs_13jan15.tar.gz

Thanks,
R. Singh
# 6  
Old 01-16-2015
You can't find records in a tar archive, just files as explained above and available in the man tar page.
If you want single records, extract the respective file (which you of course need to know), and then extract the records from that file.
 
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