On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:15:51AM -0500, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> You can run tar with the v ("verbose") switch, then it displays all the file 
> names with paths of the extracted files.
> 
> tar xzvf some-archive.tar.gz | more
> 
> extracts a tar/gzip archive, displaying the file names and paths, pausing so you
> can see one screenful at a time.  Using t instead of x will just list what would
> be extracted without actually extracting anything.

On some versions of tar you can also use the v switch twice to get "very
verobose" output. I don't remember where I first saw this (might have been
on my Amiga or SunOS 4), but I'm in the habit of using it always now. 
-- 
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