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A tar.xz file extension shows that the file is a tar archive file compressed using the XZ compression tool. In this guide, we will cover various examples of how to list contests of a tar.xz file, and extract all or specific files or directories in a tar.xz file.

We will also cover how to download and extract an archive file with a single command using the tar utility.

This guide shows various examples of how to extract tar files compressed using xz, a general-purpose data compression tool.

How to List tar.xz Files in Linux

To list the contents of a file with tar.xz extension, run the tar command with the or and flags, which instruct the tar command to list the contents of an archive and specify the file name respectively, as follows:

$ tar -tf trilium-linux-x64-0.58.7.tar.xz

You can enable verbose output or long listing format using the or option.

In this case, the tar command output will show the list of files or directories together with their permissions, size, date of last modification, etc.

$ tar -tvf trilium-linux-x64-0.58.7.tar.xz

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