Is there a way to list files in a stopped container?

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1

Currently trying to recover some files in a stopped and unstartable container, but I don’t want to pull everything, and I don’t know exactly which files I’d like to recover.

Something like

$ lxc file ls <container>/<path>

would be nice.

2

The API has some support for that, but note that you will not get any details on the type, owner, permissions, size, …

So it’s sufficient for recursive pull/push (what it’s meant for) but not really up to a file ls level:

stgraber@castiana:~/data/code/lxc/lxd (stgraber/master)$ lxc query /1.0/instances/centos3/files?path=/
[
	"etc",
	"sbin",
	"bin",
	"usr",
	"lib",
	"home",
	"root",
	"proc",
	"opt",
	"selinux",
	"sys",
	"lib64",
	"tmp",
	"mnt",
	".autofsck",
	"boot",
	"var",
	"initrd",
	"dev"
]
3

Thanks Stéphane, just what I needed. I’m on 3.17 so I had to go with

$ lxc query /1.0/containers/penguin/files?path=/