I was happy to see this hint about Quick Look support for examining the contents of zip files. However, since I do a lot of my work back and forth with *nix users, most of my compressed archives are gzipped or bzipped tarballs.

I was directed to the free BetterZip Quick Look Generator. that Quick Look Generator will examine the contents of ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO,

RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt’s SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary files. And as noted, it’s free!

[robg adds: While that is mentioned in the comments to the referenced tip, given that that plug-in really handles most types of compressed files, I felt it was a different sufficient Quick Look plug-in to merit a tip of its own. that plug-in is appar…

Original post by Mike Schramm