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Sometimes it is handy to be able to list contents of a tar file within a compressed archive, such as 7Zip in this instance, without having to extract the archive first. This is especially helpful when dealing with larger sized files.
If you can do better, submit your command here.
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In recent versions, tar supports LZMA (of which 7z and xz are implementations) so you could also say (tar >=1.20)
tar --lzma -tvf testfile.tar.lzmain this case the dash is required preceding the tvf options.