X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :references:in-reply-to:content-type:subject; q=dns; s=default; b= cFGmOnQ3/wyrI420jPjLwd18/JeWsI3fRyZAbuwfTFXC/kvlRzeJGYQlb0Q5eJYp HLPbKieC8G1VSXEADpWo5WZ3jc6dsI3Z8fMI9d0DEneForcgh+8ep2KeJByxGr3s 34NvpiOIMvxQlPVhsAIlMNx/Rvmn48XzUKnlXX3xyBo= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :references:in-reply-to:content-type:subject; s=default; bh=JXQp tQ7Rl1EacHbvLgUkWUa7kko=; b=kZR3IWCQpbg3/OUIAGDfm9JjCzN6s1uykK93 kiC99gVe/jpUSX9hO6l5ju4su+F8G1QfhPwza3nP42BKGIbtPfKQ/o99TpCZvxJl /HOqJmTGynGfsN1ngMuAkL2deTDeJosNq1t04++E5Ogf0OMDPGEKnPLGW5jEg7ky xRw7SEg= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx01.chunkz.net Message-ID: <553550F1.1050906@chunkz.net> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 21:18:09 +0200 From: Bertrand Caplet User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: ,<55354928 DOT 3090004 AT chunkz DOT net> ,<55354CD2 DOT 7060407 AT chunkz DOT net> <2748d7b76a6248fb853de6541f2582c6 AT EX2013DAG-B DOT pavlovmedia DOT corp> In-Reply-To: <2748d7b76a6248fb853de6541f2582c6@EX2013DAG-B.pavlovmedia.corp> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kAfjDw1lmcfxvBAXROkbn9Nn392tMhSqF" X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a01:e34:ec7d:490:3903:14a4:725a:6791 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: bertrand DOT caplet AT chunkz DOT net Subject: Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:45:44 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mx01.chunkz.net) X-IsSubscribed: yes --kAfjDw1lmcfxvBAXROkbn9Nn392tMhSqF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > I have an old CentOS system, so I copied an existing gzipped tarball from= it to my Cygwin and had no difficulties exploding that file. It had exten= sion '.tgz'. Copied it to '.tar.gz' and still had no issue with it. >=20 > What version of RedHat are you using, and what command(s) created the com= pressed tarball you're having difficulty with?=20=20 >=20 > If you run the 'file' command on the tarball file, what does 'file' say i= t contains? >=20 > rake-0.8.4.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, last modified: Wed Mar 4 07:31:= 25 2009, from Unix >=20 > Note that some flavors of tar don't have a very powerful compression libr= ary, and some don't have one at all. For those old ones you may be forced = to use gunzip to get the tarball into a form the old tar understands. (My = ancient CentOS box has it, though.) I agree with you Joi. Tar relies on content of file not extension. Murthy, tell us what file yourfile.tar.gz does say ? --=20 CHUNKZ.NET - script kiddie and computer technician Bertrand Caplet, Flers (FR) Feel free to send encrypted/signed messages Key ID: 37F70C30 GPG FP: 134A 4027 518B 5F4D D409 558D BA9B 7BF0 37F7 0C30 --kAfjDw1lmcfxvBAXROkbn9Nn392tMhSqF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVNVDxAAoJELqbe/A39wwwdkUH/2/YJyr7GN/uoAiOr50IUTLf potyCTVoVb3BH9B1mJztRLwBoFjhUWDEngd+UoUt3dW+5ZHBQ2kkhJoHKDNcMxb5 S/YNnc6WLIGuYC//TaqgVqscjT6WCjUIQyWIflIGFk5XF2wpGUGYo+fxU8aX3xqn 1PKZw1XW4vn0ARBCL2+4Rf6jj4wZHPBY8ntUBUoyZjdJ31ahwVLjzncpv173SsIg H7tDZEoF5Nltd8NaAqrG4pMEeHnOstdO6xbGomfMnaavCkSPmypSDMpFGjfEWemF Ofc6/xHaT7RJl0+N5R4U7nZBnJzyRWzFU/pDD/BsQ4ldE0qMZ+AseRuUNvsrEzw= =i2Et -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kAfjDw1lmcfxvBAXROkbn9Nn392tMhSqF--