Verbosely list contents of archive formats recognised by 7z(1).
Work-in-progress.
The subcommand to list an archive's contents only supports two output styles:
the default tabular layout (compact and human-readable, but incomplete) and a
“technical mode” enabled with -slt (Set list technical-mode).
This latter lists everything there is to know about an archive's contents but it
omits the aforementioned tabular layout, obstructing quick and casual perusal by
readers. This becomes a problem when you'd like the best of both worlds… say, to
generate a textual representation of an archive for git-diff(1) drivers:
$ echo Foo > foo.txt
$ echo Bar > bar.txt
$ 7z a archive.7z *.txt
$ 7zinfo archive.7zOutput
7-Zip [64] 17.04 : Copyright (c) 1999-2021 Igor Pavlov : 2017-08-28 p7zip Version 17.04 (locale=utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,16 CPUs x64) Scanning the drive for archives: 1 file, 179 bytes (1 KiB) Listing archive: archive.7z -- Path = archive.7z Type = 7z Physical Size = 179 Headers Size = 167 Method = LZMA2:12 Solid = + Blocks = 1 Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name ------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------ 2024-08-15 13:28:35 ....A 4 12 bar.txt 2024-08-15 13:28:33 ....A 4 foo.txt ------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------ 2024-08-15 13:28:35 8 12 2 files ---------- Path = bar.txt Size = 4 Packed Size = 12 Modified = 2024-08-15 13:28:35 Attributes = A_ -rw-r--r-- CRC = A4901CD7 Encrypted = - Method = LZMA2:12 Block = 0 Path = foo.txt Size = 4 Packed Size = Modified = 2024-08-15 13:28:33 Attributes = A_ -rw-r--r-- CRC = DE00CA96 Encrypted = - Method = LZMA2:12 Block = 0
(The tabular version could also do with more columns for normally-hidden fields)