How to find out the content size of a large tar.gz archive?

Question

linux

There is a packed tar.gz archive with a size of 5 GB. How to find out the size of files in an archive without unpacking it. "gzip -l" shows some nonsense: the size of the archive is larger than the size of the files in the uncompressed state, the compression is -157%.

Answer 1

tar -tf -v archive.tar.gz

Answer 2

gunzip -l archive.gz