I made a small utility for listing the file names inside an archive file, e.g. tar, zip, etc. This comes in handy when you download some software package using the command line but you aren’t sure whether to extract it in its own folder because you don’t know what the file structure inside is.
Nifty! I’ve recently begun using archivemount-ng, which allows mounting an archive of the formats you mention (not rar though, but I have rar2fs for that), and in theory one can easily mount an archive using those methods and just do a
treein the mount folder, but it seems that pear saves a few steps and makes that a lot easier.