On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:48:28 -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 17:24:11 +0800, Afriza N. Arief wrote: > > $ tar -czf tarball.tgz folder # failed silently (instantly returns) > > $ tar -cf tarball.tar folder # succeed > > $ gzip tarball.tar # succeed > > $ tar -xzf tarball.tar.gz # failed with tar: Child died with signal 11 > > $ unzip tarball.tar.gz # succeed > > $ tar -xf tarball.tar # succeed > > > > How does tar finds the gzip/gunzip/zcat binary to be used? > > For testing purposes, you could specify an explicit compression program > using the -I option...
Also, what does the "Compression options" section of "tar --help" show? Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239