tar.tar

againstms · 11-22-2004, 05:31 AM

How do you unzip a file that says tar.tar at he end ?????

Sorry for the dum question!!!!

rjlee · 11-22-2004, 05:43 AM

This is probably a .tar.gz or a .tar.bz2 file that has had its file extension mangled by Microsoft Internet Explorer, in order to match the MIME type of the file.

Back to Linux, use

Code:

file *.tar.tar

to find out if you have a bzip2 (.bz2) or gzip (.gz) compressed file. Then correct the filename

Code:

mv file.tar.tar file.tar.bz2 or gz

and then go as normal.

Alternatively, it could be a tar file contained inside another tar file (a rather pointless thing to do, but possible). In which case, untar it to extract the [b].tar[b] file, then untar that as normal.

againstms · 11-22-2004, 05:50 AM

Thanks for the help and I knwo I can figure it out but need to print this urgently, coudl you be so ind and tell me what the commands shoudl be to extract this file?

acid_kewpie · 11-22-2004, 05:51 AM

tar -xvf blah.tar.tar

may well leave you with another tar? inwhich case the same on that file too....

againstms · 11-22-2004, 07:17 AM

For the life of me I just can not get this file to uncompress so that I can access the contents....what it is is the rute book that when you download it, it download as follows rute.pdf.bz2.pdf or rute.html.tar.tar............

How do I get this file to extract????

bathory · 11-22-2004, 08:02 AM

Code:

mv rute.html.tar.tar rute.html.tar
tar xvf rute.html.tar

should work