tar with gz
 

Here is another one that has me stumped.

I have several files that end in .gz

i have tried

tar -xcz file.gz

but it just hangs there and doesn't do anything.

any ideas?

gunzip file

if they're just gzipped. Try 'file file' if that doesn't work, to see what it really is.

Oh, and it'd be 'tar xzf' to extract a tar.gz.

try

Tried several different ways and got this.

[root@ANAKIN DOTDgz]# tar -zxvf sasp.d.gz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

same with

tar -xzf sasp.d.gz

I placed the files (over 350) on this drive in windows. Does that make a difference?

when I mount the drive in windows, I can use Winzip and it works just fine. But I have to do it one file at a time. Lot of work!

If I can do it in Linux, I would assume that I could do it using a wildcard.

tar -zxvf *.gz or something like that.

If sasp.d.gz is the actual file name it is probably not a tar file

Try gunzip <filename> of gzip -d <filename>

As I said before (apparently not clearly enough):

If labelled correctly, a 'gz' is not a 'tar.gz' and you don't use tar.

thanks

I thought it was part of tar for gzip not a separate program.

Everything is working just fine.