List or extract Linux ISO contents in macOS

DiskImageMounter.app silently fails to mount Linux ISOs in macOS and hdiutil attach linux.iso returns "attach failed - Resource temporarily unavailable". However, the built-in tar ( bsdtar 3.5.3 in Tahoe) command can list contents: tar tf /path/to/linux.iso and extract files: tar xf /path/to/linux.iso -C ~/extracted/ See also anylinuxfs ("mount any linux-supported filesystem read/write using NFS…