lscomp

Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 28 December 2016
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NAME

lscomp - list the files contained in a compressed archive file

 

SYNOPSIS

edrc/bin/lscomp [ -h ]

lscomp file

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/edrc

 

DESCRIPTION

With lscomp you can list the files included in a compressed archive without decompressing the whole archive file. To view a more detailed filelist you should use the llcomp command.

 

OPTIONS

-h
usage message

file
filename of the compressed archive file. This file is a file with the suffixes .tgz, .tar.gz, .tar.bz, .tar.bz2, .tar.Z, .tar.zip, .cpio, .cpio.gz, .cpio.bz, .cpio.bz2, .cpio.xz, .cpio.Z, .cpio.zip, .depot.gz, .depot, .epub, .zip, .jar, .whl, .rock, .rpm, .deb or .bw.

 

EXIT STATUS

1
specified archive file not found.

2
file format of specified archive file not recognized. The file format is determined by the file suffix only.

4
usage displayed.

6
error while decompressing a compressed archive. This error occurs if the file is not compressed with the command that is normally assigned with the file suffix.
For instance: the file my_archive.tar.gz was not really compressed with gzip or the file is corrupt.

7
error while accessing file list in archive. This error occurs if the file is not archived with the command that is normally assigned to the file suffix.
For instance: the file my_archive.tar.gz was not really a compressed tar file or the tar archive is corrupt.

 

SEE ALSO

edrcintro(1), llcomp(1), catcomp(1), ar(1), bzip2(1), bwcreate(1), bwcompare(1), dpkg(1), zip(1), unzip(1), compress(1), cpio(1), rpm(1), jar(1), tar(1), gzip(1), xz(1)

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

lscomp was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net . 

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 Christian Walther

This is free software; see edrc/doc/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXIT STATUS
SEE ALSO
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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