Quote Originally Posted by jjmac
Doing ...

] tar -[z|j]tf filename.tar.[bz|bz2]

will tabulate the contents. It's handy sometimes
to have a look first.
I usually add the v option. The command would look:

Code:
tar -[z|j]vtf filename.tar.[bz|bz2]
BTW, when you save your configuration to a persistent media, it is compressed with the bz2 extension.

--GN