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Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Murthy Gandikota <murthy64 at hotmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:26:09 +0300
- Subject: Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, Murthy Gandikota!
> 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?
tar xvf mytar.gz
I.e. drop filter spec.
tar is smart enough to detect and apply known filters automatically.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, April 20, 2015 22:23:58
Sorry for my terrible english...