lsar(1)

lsar1

List archive file contents

Usage

lsar [OPTION] ... ARCHIVE ...

Overview

List the contents of ARCHIVEs.

Options

-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.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 7–8
  2. 9–Arch

-L since Debian 9 (Stretch); -v since Debian 9 (Stretch); -version since Debian 9 (Stretch); -verylong since Debian 9 (Stretch).

From unarchiver 1.10.8-6 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.