LSAR(1)

✨ LSAR(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the lsar manual page — it's a User Commands situation and honestly it's giving "let me show u what's inside that archive" 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

lsar — list archive file contents. that's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lsar [OPTION]... ARCHIVE...

so you're gonna pass some *OPTION*s, then one or more *ARCHIVE*s, and she's gonna do her thing ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

List the contents of *ARCHIVE*s. like, peek inside. no unpacking, no drama, just vibes and filenames 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -l, -long — print more info about each file in the archive. not everything, just ✨more✨.
• -L, -verylong — print ALL the available info about each file in the archive. she's not holding back, she's spilling everything 💅
• -t, -test — test the integrity of the files in the archive, if possible. a lil vibe check on ur files 🔥
• -p, -password PASSWORD — the password to use for decrypting protected archives. yes bestie, some archives are locked, this is the key 🔑
• -e, -encoding ENCODING — the encoding to use for filenames in the archive, when it is not known. if you don't specify it, the program attempts to auto-detect the encoding used. pass "help" or "list" as the argument and she'll give you 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 you don't specify it, then either the encoding given by the -encoding option or the auto-detected encoding gets used. she reuses, she recycles 🌈
• -pe, -print-encoding — print the auto-detected encoding and the confidence factor after the file list. receipts, basically 🧾✨
• -i, -indexes — instead of specifying the files to list as filenames or wildcard patterns, specify them as indexes. numbers, not names 🔢
• -j, -json — print the listing in JSON format. for the devs, for the scripts, for the pipeline girlies 🫶
• -ja, -json-ascii — print the listing in JSON format, encoded as pure ASCII text. same JSON energy, ASCII-only delivery 🌸
• -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. she stops at the first layer, no digging deeper 🛑
• -h, -help — display help information 🆘
• -v, -version — print version and exit. quick lil hello then she's gone 👋

ngl bestie, the -nr one matters — nested archives can get deep, and sometimes u just want the outer layer, periodt.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

unar(1) — her sibling, the one that actually unpacks stuff 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! slay 🎀 this masterpiece comes to you from The Unarchiver, dated 2011-09-26, and it's the LSAR(1) page — iconic, timeless, fr fr 💖✨🦋