bzip2

List the contents of a tar file

<code>tar -tvf file.tar</code>

List the contents of a tar.gz file

<code>tar -ztvf file.tar.gz</code>

List the contents of a tar.bz2 file

<code>tar -jtvf file.tar.bz2</code>

Options:
-t List the contents of an archive
-v Verbose mode
-z Use gzip so that you can process a compressed (.gz) tar file
-j Use bzip2, use to decompress .bz2 files
-f filename Use archive file called filename