extracting tgz.tar
Hi all,
I have a file named miracl.tgz.tar.. and i m trying to decompress it.. I tried the following command: tar -xvf miracl.tgz.tar But only the following message comes up.. tar: blocksize = 2 nothing else happen.... Am I doing it the wrong way? Many thanks, Regards, Abhi |
it should be tar.gz or miracl.tgz. The tar extension indicates an uncompressed tar. tgz indicates a gzipped tar. so can you have an uncompressed-compressed file. yeah, but that's not the idea.
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tar xbf 2 miracl.tgz.tar |
or if we can assume that it's been renamed somewhere along the line, try changing the name to miracl.tgz and run "tar -zxvf ./miracle.tgz"
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Or try to see what exactly you're dealing with by doing a:
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file miracl.tgz.tar |
As implied, it does not matter what kind of strange extensions someone added. What matters is what is inside the file.
Another option: try gunzip. If that works, then try un-tarring it. I just tried a file that is--in fact--a *.tar.gz. "file" reports that it is simply "gzip compressed data". If I unzip it with gunzip, then "file" says it's a tar archive. All is well.......;) |
Hi
I tried all the above... when it still didin't work.. then i re-downloaded tht file..I dont know what hapenned last time.. but now.. the extension is just tar..
so it's miracl.tar.. now, when i tried tar xf miracl.tar the following error is shown: tar: directory checksum error [ does this mean that the file is corrupt..] I am on solaris.. but i dont think there would be much change in commands.. Regards, Abhi |
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Sounds to me like it might be a blocking issue.
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