borg list

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

positional arguments
	NAME	specify the archive name
	PATH	paths to list; patterns are supported
optional arguments
	--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. A “bpath” key is therefore not available.
Common options
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

Description

This command lists the contents of an archive.

For more help on include/exclude patterns, see the borg help patterns command output.

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, see barchive and bpath keys below
• SPACE
• TAB
• CR
• LF

Keys available only when listing files in an archive:

• 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 symlinks (identical to linktarget)
• linktarget
• 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 {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)

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
...