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List contents of zip / tar.gz / tar.bz2

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It is quite useful to view the contents of a zip, tar.gz or tar.bz2 file without extracting the file from the terminal. View contents of a zip file unzip -l archive.zip View contents of a tar.gz file tar -ztvf archive.