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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 sourceware dot org" <cygwin at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:58:59 +0000
- Subject: RE: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
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- References: <COL130-W80F61D41DBC766A5C40206C2E00 at phx dot gbl>,<55354928 dot 3090004 at chunkz dot net>
Did you mean tar zcvf ? It still doesn't work on RedHat and Cygwin64.
Thanks
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> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:44:56 +0200
> From: bertrand.caplet@chunkz.net
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file
>
> Hey there,
>
> It's not working because you're trying to decompress a tar + gzip
> archive with tar zxvf but it's just a gzip archive.
>
> If you first make a tar + gzip archive with :
>
> tar xcvf archive.tar.gz your-files
>
> and then :
>
> tar zxvf archive.tar.gz
>
> It will be ok :-)
>
> Regards,
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