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RE: tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file


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 :-)
>
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