Extracting Information From an Archive

Use the flar info command to get information about archives you have already created. The syntax of the command is as follows:

flar info [-l] [-k keyword] [-t [-p posn] [-b blocksize]] filename

-k keyword

Returns only the value of the keyword keyword.

-l

Lists all the files in the archive section.

Example 22–4 Listing Files in an Archive Section

In this example, the file structure of the archive named, archive3.flar, is checked.

# flar info -l archive3.flar
aaa
aaa/bbb
aaa/bbb/ccc
aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd
aaa/eee