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NAME
borg-list - List archive or repository contents
SYNOPSIS
borg [common options] list [options] [REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE] [PATH...]
DESCRIPTION
This command lists the contents of a repository or an archive.
See the "borg help patterns" command for more help on exclude patterns.
OPTIONS
See borg-common(1) for common options of Borg commands.
arguments
REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE
repository or archive to list contents of
PATH paths to list; patterns are supported
optional arguments
--short
only print file/directory names, nothing else
--format FORMAT, --list-format FORMAT
specify format for file listing (default: "{mode} {user:6} {group:6} {size:8d} {mtime}
{path}{extra}{NL}")
--json Only valid for listing repository contents. Format output as JSON. 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. A "barchive" key is therefore not available.
--json-lines
Only valid for listing archive contents. 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. A "bpath" key is therefore not available.
Archive filters
-P PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX
only consider archive names starting with this prefix.
-a GLOB, --glob-archives GLOB
only consider archive names matching the glob. sh: rules apply, see "borg help patterns". --prefix
and --glob-archives are mutually exclusive.
--sort-by KEYS
Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, name, id; default is: timestamp
--first N
consider first N archives after other filters were applied
--last N
consider last N archives after other filters were applied
Exclusion options
-e PATTERN, --exclude PATTERN
exclude paths matching PATTERN
--exclude-from EXCLUDEFILE
read exclude patterns from EXCLUDEFILE, one per line
--pattern PATTERN
experimental: include/exclude paths matching PATTERN
--patterns-from PATTERNFILE
experimental: read include/exclude patterns from PATTERNFILE, one per line
EXAMPLES
$ borg list /path/to/repo
Monday Mon, 2016-02-15 19:15:11
repo Mon, 2016-02-15 19:26:54
root-2016-02-15 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:36:29
newname Mon, 2016-02-15 19:50:19
...
$ borg list /path/to/repo::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 /path/to/repo::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 /path/to/repo::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
...
NOTES
The following keys are available for --format:
• NEWLINE: OS dependent line separator
• NL: alias of NEWLINE
• NUL: NUL character for creating print0 / xargs -0 like output, see barchive/bpath
• SPACE
• TAB
• CR
• LF
Keys for listing repository archives:
• archive: archive name interpreted as text (might be missing non-text characters, see barchive)
• name: alias of "archive"
• barchive: verbatim archive name, can contain any character except NUL
• comment: archive comment interpreted as text (might be missing non-text characters, see bcomment)
• bcomment: verbatim archive comment, can contain any character except NUL
• id: internal ID of the archive
• start: time (start) of creation of the archive
• time: alias of "start"
• end: time (end) of creation of the archive
• hostname: hostname of host on which this archive was created
• username: username of user who created this archive
Keys for listing archive files:
• type
• mode
• uid
• gid
• user
• group
• path: path interpreted as text (might be missing non-text characters, see bpath)
• bpath: verbatim POSIX path, can contain any character except NUL
• source: link target for links (identical to linktarget)
• linktarget
• flags
• size
• csize: compressed size
• dsize: deduplicated size
• dcsize: deduplicated compressed size
• num_chunks: number of chunks in this file
• unique_chunks: number of unique chunks in this file
• mtime
• ctime
• atime
• isomtime
• isoctime
• isoatime
• md5
• sha1
• sha224
• sha256
• sha384
• sha512
• archiveid
• archivename
• extra: prepends {source} 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)
AUTHOR
The Borg Collective
2020-12-24 BORG-LIST(1)