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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 23:50:36 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To: Murthy Gandikota <murthy64 AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: tar zxvf won't  work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
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Greetings, Murthy Gandikota!

Please don't top-post. Thank you.
And please no cleartext emails in quoted text.

>>> I am using Cygwin64. I am getting a file from RedHat in tar + zip format.
>>> Currently I am able to unzip it and untar it in 2 steps as follows:
>>
>>> $gunzip mytar.gz
>>> $tar xvf mytar
>>
>>> However, I would like to do the following:
>>
>>> $tar -zxvf mytar.gz
>>
>>> The error message I see is:
>>
>>> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>>> tar: Skipping to next header
>>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>
>>
>>> Can someone please tell me what is the right way?
>>
>> tar xvf mytar.gz
>>
>> I.e. drop filter spec.
>> tar is smart enough to detect and apply known filters automatically.


> I see same error

> $ tar xvf mytar.gz
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Then what makes you think it is actually a tar archive?
What

  gunzip > mytar < mytar.gz; file mytar

says?


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, April 20, 2015 23:47:50

Sorry for my terrible english...


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