change tar.gz folder to zip folder

umucar · 09-09-2014, 04:34 AM

Hello everyone,

I have tried to open a tar.gz format folder by just doing:
tar -zxvf ancMETA.tar.gz
And here is what I got as an error:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
C

technizia · 09-09-2014, 05:52 AM

Try executing tar xvf ancMETA.tar.gz

pan64 · 09-09-2014, 06:55 AM

you can use the command file to identify the type of that file.

umucar · 09-09-2014, 07:19 AM

Thanks.
It works.

Cheers,
C