When viewing this page, https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Incremental-Dumps.html
There is an example, ====================================================================== To list the contents of an incremental archive, use `--list' (see section How to List Archives), as usual. To obtain more information about the archive, use `--listed-incremental' or `--incremental' combined with two `--verbose' options(12): tar --list --incremental --verbose --verbose archive.tar ====================================================================== I believe that there is a '--files=' missing after the second --verbose. In any event, this command just hangs (waiting for stdin) when run on my Debian linux system. If, however, I add --files= to the above command, like this: tar --list --incremental --verbose --verbose --files=archive.tar Then the output is as documented on that page. Hope this helps, derek -- Ventis secundis, tene cursum. dt at hawkmoon dot mn dot org slash slash lastditch dot dyndns dot org
