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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: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 02:33:55 +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!
>>> anything except make a LARGER file - because the first round of
>>> compression removed any redundancy). Tar cannot read a
>>> double-compressed stream, but breaking things into two steps lets you
>>> get back to a single compressed stream, where the tar call then
>>> auto-decompresses because you weren't supplying an explicit 'z' the
>>> second time around. To prove it, try:
>>>
>>> gunzip <mytar.gz>mytar
>>> tar zxvf mytar
>>>
>>> and if it still untars with an explicit decompression, then you have
>>> proven that your original file was double-compressed. Also, if I'm
>>> right about double compression, then mytar.gz would likely be slightly
>>> larger than mytar (rather than the usual case of the .gz being
>>> noticeably smaller).
>>
>> Yes, Sir. It did untar properly. So the problem is with the server compressing during the download (I get the file from a http server)?
>> Thanks a lot for your help
> It would be doubly nice if cygwin handled it ;-) It seems gunzip had no
> problem recognizing the file as double compressed.
> Thanks all for the help.
This is not expected, nor supported. And is unlikely to ever be supported.
Adding "support" for such cases would easily create a shell bomb, if you nest
packers enough times.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 02:31:44
Sorry for my terrible english...
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