---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 23:50:36 +0300 > From: anrdae...@yandex.ru > To: murth...@hotmail.com; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file > > Greetings, Murthy Gandikota! > > Please don't top-post. Thank you. > And please no cleartext emails in quoted text. > >>>> 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. > > >> I see same error > >> $ tar xvf mytar.gz >> tar: This does not look like a tar archive >> tar: Skipping to next header >> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > Then what makes you think it is actually a tar archive? > What > > gunzip> mytar < mytar.gz; file mytar > > says? > > > -- > With best regards, > Andrey Repin > Monday, April 20, 2015 23:47:50 > > Sorry for my terrible english... > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Sorry, didn't notice the top-posting.... here is the output to the command mytar: gzip compressed data, last modified: Tue Mar 24 03:50:58 2015, from Unix Thanks -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
