lsar - Man Page

• List an archive file's contents: lsar path/to/archive
• List a password protected archive file's contents: lsar path/to/archive [-p|--password] password
• Print all available information about each file in the archive (it's very long): lsar [-L|--verylong] path/to/archive
• Test the integrity of the files in the archive (if possible): lsar [-t|--test] path/to/archive
• List the archive file's contents in JSON format: lsar [-j|--json] path/to/archive
• Display help: lsar [-h|--help]

tldr.sh

lsar [OPTION]... ARCHIVE...

List the contents of ARCHIVEs.

-l,  -long

Print more information about each file in the archive.

-L,  -verylong

Print all available information about each file in the archive.

-t,  -test

Test the integrity of the files in the archive, if possible.

-p,  -password PASSWORD

The password to use for decrypting protected archives.

-e,  -encoding ENCODING

The encoding to use for filenames in the archive, when it is not known.  If not specified, the program attempts to auto-detect the encoding used.  Use "help" or "list" as the argument to give a listing of all supported encodings.

-E,  -password-encoding ENCODING

The encoding to use for the password for the archive, when it is not known.  If not specified, then either the encoding given by the -encoding option or the auto-detected encoding is used.

-pe,  -print-encoding

Print the auto-detected encoding and the confidence factor after the file list.

-i,  -indexes

Instead of specifying the files to list as filenames or wildcard patterns, specify them as indexes.

-j,  -json

Print the listing in JSON format.

-ja,  -json-ascii

Print the listing in JSON format, encoded as pure ASCII text.

-nr,  -no-recursion

Do not attempt to list the contents of archives contained in other archives.  For instance, when listing a .tar.gz file, only list the .tar file and not its contents.

-h,  -help

Display help information.

-v,  -version

Print version and exit.

unar(1)

unar(1).