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pear: a simple utility for listing file names inside archives (github.com)
submitted 10 months ago by pipe01@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev
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I made a small utility for listing the file names inside an archive file, e.g. tar, zip, etc. This comes in handy when you download some software package using the command line but you aren't sure whether to extract it in its own folder because you don't know what the file structure inside is.

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 points 10 months ago

Nifty! I've recently begun using archivemount-ng, which allows mounting an archive of the formats you mention (not rar though, but I have rar2fs for that), and in theory one can easily mount an archive using those methods and just do a tree in the mount folder, but it seems that pear saves a few steps and makes that a lot easier.