Linuxers posted a how-to on viewing or listing files in an archive(tar or zip) without extracting/decompressing it

Many a times, its better to view what's in the archive before extracting it. Sometimes the stuff compressed together is useless and extracting it might be just a waste of time and energy. Here we will consider both tar and zipped files and will list out the files bundled inside without fully extracting it.

How to view/list the files in an archive(tar or zip) without extracting/decompressing it