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try this:
$ file foo.tgz.tar
POSIX tar archive
$ tar -xvf foo.tgz.tar
bar.tgz
$ file bar.tgz
GZIP compressed file (*or something similar*)
$ tar -zxvf bar.tgz
(*lots of files*)
... now, it beats me why the hell someone would want to tar a .tgz-file (tgz is an abbreviation of .tar.gz, so the full file would be .tar.gz.tar); anyways, hope this helps.
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D/l a .tgz.tar file..how to unzip
