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Getting Additional File Information

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When you specify the `--verbose' (`-v') option in conjunction with `--list' (`-t'), tar will print additional information about the files being listed (file protection, owner and group ID, size, and date and time of creation). The example above, in verbose mode, would be:

% tar --list --verbose --file=music
drwxrwxrwx myself/user 0 May 31 21:49 1990 practice/
-rw-rw-rw- myself/user 42 May 21 13:29 1990 practice/blues
-rw-rw-rw- myself/user 62 May 23 10:55 1990 practice/folk
-rw-rw-rw- myself/user 40 May 21 13:30 1990 practice/jazz
-rw-rw-rw- myself/user 10240 May 31 21:49 1990 practice/records
% 

Note that using `--verbose' (`-v') with `--list' (`-t') does not cause tar to print the names of files as they are being acted on, though the `--verbose' (`-v') option will have this effect with all other operations.

To get more information when you list the names of files stored in an archive, specify the `--verbose' (`-v') option in conjunction with `--list' (`-t').

tar will print archive member's file protection, owner and group ID, size, and date and time of creation.

For example:

% tar --list --verbose --file=music
drwxrwxrwx myself/user 0 May 31 21:49 1990 practice/
-rw-rw-rw- myself/user 42 May 21 13:29 1990 practice/blues
-rw-rw-rw- myself/user 62 May 23 10:55 1990 practice/folk
-rw-rw-rw- myself/user 40 May 21 13:30 1990 practice/jazz
-rw-rw-rw- myself/user 10240 May 31 21:49 1990 practice/records
%

Note that when you use `--verbose' (`-v') with `--list' (`-t'), tar doesn't print the names of files as they are being acted on, though the `--verbose' (`-v') option will have this effect when used with all other operations.

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