Listing Tar Archives
When used with the --list (-t) option, the tar command lists the content of a tar archive without extracting it.
$ tar -tf archive.tar
Extracting Tar Archive
Most of the archived files in Linux are archived and compressed using a tar or tar.gz format.
Knowing how to extract these files from the command line is important.
$ tar -xf archive.tar
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