Exam LX0-103 topic 3 question 27 discussion

Here's a breakdown of what each option does: t - This option tells the tar command to list the contents of the archive, rather than extracting them. z - This option tells tar to use the gzip utility to decompress the archive, which is in the "tgz" format. Without this option, tar would not be able to read the compressed archive. f - This option specifies the name of the archive file to work with. In this case, it is "archive.tgz". When you run this command, the output will list the contents of the compressed tar archive in the terminal window. Each line of output represents a file or directory in the archive, along with its permissions, owner, size, and timestamp. Note that the order of the options is significant: the f option must come last, since it is followed by the name of the archive file. If you were to run tar tzf archive.tgz instead, the z option would be interpreted as part of the archive name, and the command would fail.