How can we view the contents of a gzip-compressed tar archive without extracting it?

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You can view the contents of a gzip-compressed tar archive without extracting it by using the -t option along with the -z option in the tar command. The command looks like this:

tar -tzvf archive.tar.gz
  • -t: Lists the contents of the archive.
  • -z: Indicates that the archive is gzip-compressed.
  • -v: Verbose mode, which shows detailed information about the files.
  • -f: Specifies the name of the archive file.

This command will display the list of files and directories contained in archive.tar.gz without extracting them.

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