On 2025-08-09 01:30:52 -0700, Michael Paoli wrote: > < tar.xz | xz -d | tar tf -
With tar utilities that support xz (like GNU tar), not using "xz -d" could be more efficient as "xz -d" will uncompress the whole file while this may not be necessary: tar tf file.tar.xz is sufficient. This may allow one to skip xz blocks if the archive contains big files. That said, I don't know whether GNU tar has such an optimization. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
