Listing the content of a tar file or a directory only down to some level

Question

I wonder how to list the content of a tar file only down to some level?

I understand tar tvf mytar.tar will list all files, but sometimes I would like

Answer 1

Another option is archivemount. You mount it, and cd into it. Then you can do anything with it just as with other filesystem.

$ archivemount /path/to/files.tgz /path/to/mnt/folder

It seems faster than the tar method.