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tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
- From: Murthy Gandikota <murthy64 at hotmail dot com>
- To: "cygwin at sourceware dot org" <cygwin at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:40:58 +0000
- Subject: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
Hi All
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?
Thanks
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