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can I view the contents of a .tgz without all the mess &nbsp;<br />
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You can view the *.tar.gz file content before extracting as shown below.<br />
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$ tar tvfz archive_name.tar.gz<br />
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thanks ,<br />
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s.deviprasad.
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Mazdajai<br />
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you are amazing, it is really rare someone answers better than wmp.
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I can un-tgz a sos report, read it and then clean up afterwards but that is time consuming, takes up disk space and is enough of a pain I do not use the sos report<br />
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can I view the contents of a .tgz without all the mess &nbsp;? &nbsp;We do have a lot of systems. <br />
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this is redhat 5.0 &nbsp;<br />
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thx
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I can un-tgz a sos report, read it and then clean up afterwards but that is time consuming, takes up disk space and is enough of a pain I do not use the sos report

can I view the contents of a .tgz without all the mess  ?  We do have a lot of systems. 

this is redhat 5.0  

thx

can I view the contents of a .tgz without all the mess  

You can view the *.tar.gz file content before extracting as shown below.

$ tar tvfz archive_name.tar.gz


thanks ,

s.deviprasad.

Mazdajai

you are amazing, it is really rare someone answers better than wmp.

how to view a sos report

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