Fun fact: If you use Archive Manager and extract a .tar.gz so that you have "Keep directory structure" unticked, you will get a tarbomb.
tar -ztf lists all the files and directories in a tar file.
Is there a way to list all the files in a tar file, without the directory structure?
I don't see a way to do it from the man page, but you can always filter the results. The following assumes no newlines in your file names:
tar tzf your_archive | awk -F/ '{ if($NF != "") print $NF }'
How it works
By setting the field separator to /, the last field awk knows about ($NF) is either the file name if it's processing a file name or empty if it's processing a directory name (tar adds a trailing slash to directory names). So, we're basically telling awk to print the last field if it's not empty.
Utilizing Joseph R.'s suggestion one can use the regex [^/]$ to grep for the files by looking for lines not ending with /.
tar tzf archive.tar.gz | grep -e "[^/]$"
foo/bar as opposed to just bar. You want grep -Eo '[^/]+$' (with GNU grep).
– Stéphane Chazelas
May 26 '15 at 15:52
tar tzf archive.tar.gz | grep -v '/$' | grep -o '[^/]*$ (no need for -e)
– Hashbrown
Mar 26 '21 at 05:39
Assuming none of the file names contain newlines:
tar -tf foo.tar | sed -e 's#.*/##' -e '\#.#!d'
The first sed command removes everything before the last / on a line, so that only the file name part is printed. The second command deletes the lines which are now empty, i.e. the lines that ended in a /, which are directories.
With pax (the POSIX command to read tar files):
pax -'s@.*/@@' < file.tar
(that lists all files regardless of their type, including directories).
tar xvzf my_tar.tar.gz --transform 's/.*\///'. But unfortunately that doesn't change how it displays in a listing withtrather thanx. – ire_and_curses Nov 15 '13 at 15:37