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From: Murthy Gandikota <murthy64 AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: RE: tar zxvf won't  work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 21:08:21 +0000
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> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 23:50:36 +0300
> From: anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru
> To: murthy64 AT hotmail DOT com; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
>
> 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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Sorry, didn't notice the top-posting.... here is the  output to the command

mytar: gzip compressed data, last modified: Tue Mar 24 03:50:58 2015, from Unix

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