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RE: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
- From: Murthy Gandikota <murthy64 at hotmail dot com>
- To: Bertrand Caplet <bertrand dot caplet at chunkz dot net>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:53:15 +0000
- Subject: RE: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
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As I said earlier, if I do it in 2 steps gunzip and tar -xvf, it worked.
The problem surfaces when I try tar -zxvf.
Thanks
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> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 21:41:54 +0200
> From: bertrand.caplet@chunkz.net
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
>
>> Ran this command on Cygwin64
>>
>> $file mytar.gz
>> mytar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix
>>
>> Did you want me to run this command on Linux?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Well as I said it's a gzip archive not a tar + gzip you can't extract it
> with tar.
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