Sometime you need to list the contents of a tar or tar.gz file on screen before extracting the all files.
Task: List the contents of a tar file
Use the following command:
$ tar -tvf file.tar
Task: List the contents of a tar.gz file
Use the following command:
$ tar -ztvf file.tar.gz
Task: List the contents of a tar.bz2 file
Use the following [...]
How to list the contents of a tar file
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