Ls Archive -

$ tar -tzf myarchive.tar.gz docs/readme.txt docs/photo.jpg scripts/run.sh To get detailed output similar to ls -l :

man ls man tar man unzip

# Alias for detailed listing of archive directory alias lsa='ls -lh --color=auto archive' list_archive() .tgz) tar -tzf "$1" ;; *.tar.bz2) tar -tjf "$1" ;; *.zip) unzip -l "$1" ;; *.rar) unrar l "$1" ;; *) echo "Unsupported archive type"; ls -l "$1" ;; esac ls archive