NAME

borg-list - List archive contents

SYNOPSIS

borg [common options] list [options] NAME [PATH...]

DESCRIPTION

This command lists the contents of an archive.
 
For more help on include/exclude patterns, see the borg_patterns command output.

OPTIONS

See borg-common(1) for common options of Borg commands.

arguments

NAME
specify the archive name
PATH
paths to list; patterns are supported

options

--short
only print file/directory names, nothing else
--format FORMAT
specify format for file listing (default: "{mode} {user:6} {group:6} {size:8} {mtime} {path}{extra}{NL}")
--json-lines
Format output as JSON Lines. The form of --format is ignored, but keys used in it are added to the JSON output. Some keys are always present. Note: JSON can only represent text.

Exclusion options

-e PATTERN, --exclude PATTERN
exclude paths matching PATTERN
--exclude-from EXCLUDEFILE
read exclude patterns from EXCLUDEFILE, one per line
--pattern PATTERN
include/exclude paths matching PATTERN
--patterns-from PATTERNFILE
read include/exclude patterns from PATTERNFILE, one per line

EXAMPLES

 
$ borg list root-2016-02-15
drwxr-xr-x root   root          0 Mon, 2016-02-15 17:44:27 .
drwxrwxr-x root   root          0 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:04:49 bin
-rwxr-xr-x root   root    1029624 Thu, 2014-11-13 00:08:51 bin/bash
lrwxrwxrwx root   root          0 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:26 bin/bzcmp -> bzdiff
-rwxr-xr-x root   root       2140 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:22 bin/bzdiff
...
$ borg list root-2016-02-15 --pattern "- bin/ba*" drwxr-xr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 17:44:27 . drwxrwxr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:04:49 bin lrwxrwxrwx root root 0 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:26 bin/bzcmp -> bzdiff -rwxr-xr-x root root 2140 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:22 bin/bzdiff ...
$ borg list archiveA --format="{mode} {user:6} {group:6} {size:8d} {isomtime} {path}{extra}{NEWLINE}" drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 . drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject -rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.ext -rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.text ...
$ borg list archiveA --pattern 're:\.ext$' -rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.ext ...
$ borg list archiveA --pattern 're:.ext$' -rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.ext -rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.text ...


NOTES

The FORMAT specifier syntax

The --format option uses python's format string syntax.
 
Examples:
 
$ borg list --format '{mode} {user:6} {group:6} {size:8} {mtime} {path}{extra}{NL}' ArchiveFoo
-rw-rw-r-- user   user       1024 Thu, 2021-12-09 10:22:17 file-foo
...
# {VAR:<NUMBER} - pad to NUMBER columns left-aligned. # {VAR:>NUMBER} - pad to NUMBER columns right-aligned. $ borg list --format '{mode} {user:>6} {group:>6} {size:<8} {mtime} {path}{extra}{NL}' ArchiveFoo -rw-rw-r-- user user 1024 Thu, 2021-12-09 10:22:17 file-foo ...


 
The following keys are always available:
NEWLINE: OS dependent line separator
NL: alias of NEWLINE
NUL: NUL character for creating print0 / xargs -0 like output
SPACE
TAB
CR
LF

 
Keys available only when listing files in an archive:
type
mode
uid
gid
user
group
path: file path
target: link target for symlinks
hlid: hard link identity (same if hardlinking same fs object)
flags
size
dsize: deduplicated size
num_chunks: number of chunks in this file
unique_chunks: number of unique chunks in this file
mtime
ctime
atime
isomtime
isoctime
isoatime
blake2b
blake2s
md5
sha1
sha224
sha256
sha384
sha3_224
sha3_256
sha3_384
sha3_512
sha512
xxh64: XXH64 checksum of this file (note: this is NOT a cryptographic hash!)
archiveid
archivename
extra: prepends {target} with " -> " for soft links and " link to " for hard links
health: either "healthy" (file ok) or "broken" (if file has all-zero replacement chunks)

SEE ALSO

borg-common(1), borg-info(1), borg-diff(1), borg-prune(1), borg-patterns(1), borg-rlist(1)

AUTHOR

The Borg Collective

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