Usage:
# Alias for detailed listing of archive directory alias lsa='ls -lh --color=auto archive' list_archive() case "$1" in *.tar) tar -tf "$1" ;; .tar.gz ls archive
$ tar -tzf myarchive.tar.gz docs/readme.txt docs/photo.jpg scripts/run.sh To get detailed output similar to ls -l : Usage: # Alias for detailed listing of archive