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Listing the Contents of a Stored Directory
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   To get information about the contents of an archived directory, use
the directory name as a file name argument in conjunction with `--list'
(`-t').  To find out file attributes, include the `--verbose' (`-v')
option.

   For example, to find out about files in the directory `practice', in
the archive file `music.tar', type:

     $ tar --list --verbose --file=music.tar practice

   `tar' responds:

     drwxrwxrwx myself user 0 1990-05-31 21:49 practice/
     -rw-rw-rw- myself user 42 1990-05-21 13:29 practice/blues
     -rw-rw-rw- myself user 62 1990-05-23 10:55 practice/folk
     -rw-rw-rw- myself user 40 1990-05-21 13:30 practice/jazz
     -rw-rw-rw- myself user 10240 1990-05-31 21:49 practice/collection.tar

   When you use a directory name as a file name argument, `tar' acts on
all the files (including sub-directories) in that directory.