How Do I View a Tar File in Linux?

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How do I view the contents of a tar file?

List the Contents of tar File

1. tar -tvf archive.tar.
2. tar –list –verbose –file=archive.tar.
3. tar -ztvf archive.tar.gz.
4. tar –gzip –list –verbose –file=archive.tar.
5. tar -jtvf archive.tar.bz2.
6. tar –bzip2 –list –verbose –file=archive.tar.

How do I open a tar file in Unix?

To tar and untar a file

1. To Create a Tar file: tar -cv(z/j)f data.tar.gz (or data.tar.bz) <folder1_name> <folder2_name> c = create v = verbose f= file name of new tar file.
2. To compress tar file: gzip data.tar. (or) …
3. To uncompress tar file. gunzip data.tar.gz. (or) …
4. To untar tar file.