# List the files in an archive

Acquire / archive

A variant of [Unpack an archive](https://meridian.online/operations/unpack-an-archive).

Read an archive as an index, one row per member with its name, size and date, without extracting it.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/unpack-an-archive/list-the-files-in-an-archive>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#unpack-an-archive)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- VisiData: [`tar (loader)`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/loaders/archive.py#L30) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`zip (loader)`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/loaders/archive.py#L26) (read 2026-09-23)