Tar.gz Viewer

View text files inside .tar.gz / .tgz archives in VS Code without extracting them.

Features

Open an archive (.tar.gz / .tgz) and VS Code shows a filterable list of its contents.
Click a file to open it as a read-only editor tab, with syntax highlighting based on its extension.
Explorer right-click → "Open File from Archive..." for a quick-pick of the files in the archive.
Command palette: Tar.gz Viewer: Open File from Archive... (lets you browse for an archive).
Supports GNU, POSIX pax, and ustar tar formats (including long file names). Plain uncompressed .tar files work with the command too.
Plain .gz files (e.g. app.log.gz) open directly as decompressed text.
Binary files are detected and not dumped into the editor.

tarGzViewer.maxArchiveSizeMB (default 512): maximum decompressed size the viewer will load.

npm install
npm run compile

Press F5 in VS Code to launch an Extension Development Host.

Build an installable package with npm run package, then install it with code --install-extension tar-gz-viewer-0.2.0.vsix.