viewing contents of tar/tar.gz/tgz files

[Jim Cheetham]

On Oct 18, 2004, at 8:49 PM, volvoguy wrote:
> less somefile.tar.gz
>
> and have it display the contents of the file.

Surely some mistake? A tar file is in tar format - less will show you 
the tar format?
Are you thinking of "tar ztvf somefile.tar.gz" which will show you the 
table of contents/file list of a tar file? You would often pipe that 
through less ...

$ tar ztvf somefile.tar.gz | less

-jim