Hello Sergey, Am Samstag, 2. März 2019, 15:29:16 CET schrieb Sergey Poznyakoff: > Dr. Axel Braun <axel.br...@gmx.de> ha escrit: > > I used tar for a while now to extract zip files with the command > > Tar cannot be used to extract zip files. It can, however, be used to > extract tar archives *compressed with zip command*, provided that > certain conditions are met (see below).
Yes, zip-compressed tar archives worked always.... > > tar --strip-components 3 -xzf /tmp/${lang_file} > > This command can succeed only if: > > 1) /tmp/${lang_file} is a valid tar archive compressed with zip > and > 2) It (zip file, not the archive) contains only one entry. In other > words, "unzip -l /tmp/${lang_file} | tail -n 1" shows something like: > > 522240 1 file OK then...seems I trapped into the later case and took it for general Thanks for the explanation! Axel -- Dr.-Ing. Axel K. Braun M: +49.173.7003.154 T: @coogor VoIP/Skype: axxite PGP Fingerprint: 2E7F 3A19 A4A4 844A 3D09 7656 822D EB64 A3BA 290D Public Key available at http://www.axxite.com/axel.br...@gmx.de.asc Personal Freedom starts with free/libre Software.... ...running openSUSE Leap 15.0