How to list archive to text file?
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#448 How to list archive to text file?
The documentation says to post support requests if they're not addressed over there. I can't see how to get an archive listing (the file metadata that displays in the UI) from the UI or the command line. We can see the file "details" there in the UI but no menu selection to list that information to a text file.
Being able to do this from the UI would be reasonable because long time users of UNIX and Windows file managers can also ls or dir in a shell to get a text listing of their files. The best I can find with peazip is the command line option -ext2list which displays at most 4 lines of the folder listing in a tiny window and then exits (Ubuntu 16.04, PeaZip 5.8.1).
If there is already a proper way of listing archive contents, please let me know what I've missed but also consider adding this question & answer to the FAQ on the main web site. For an example of what I am hoping to offer my users, please for instance run 7z l file.7z (that's a lowercase L).
I made a mistake in editing the subject for clarity and accidentally removed the word list. Please, someone with permissions update the title to How to list archive to text file?.
Last edit: Robert Phair 2017-04-26
Hello,
you can use "List" or "List (with details)" entries in dropdown menu on the right of "Test" button in application's tool bar (also available in application's context menu "More" submenu).
Report window should stay open (tested latest 6.4.0 version) and show "Save task's log" in the bottom area, to create a text file containing the result of listing command.
"List (with details)" shows multiple lines for each object, each line containing a specific information (name, size, algorithm, etc) depending on the kind of archive.
As alternative, you can directly save what is displayed in the application's file/archive browser using context menu Navigation > Save as TXT.
Those information apply to current 6.4.0 release both on Windows and Linux systems, please report if you are experiencing problems with those solutions.
thanks, that's exactly what I was hoping for; I just didn't know where to look. I never would have guessed the directory listing was behind the Test button (it is there in my current version 5.8.1). I'll certainly upgrade so I can see the rest & issue is resolved for me...