tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file

[Daniel]

Murthy Gandikota wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I am using Cygwin64. I am getting a file from RedHat in tar + zip format. Currently I am able to unzip it and untar it in 2 steps as follows:
> 
> $gunzip mytar.gz
> $tar xvf mytar
> 
> However, I would like to do the following:
> 
> $tar -zxvf mytar.gz
> 
> The error message I see is:
> 
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> 
> 
> Can someone please  tell me what is the right way?
> 
> Thanks 		 	   		  

One way to get this error if you download the file through a gzipping 
proxy web-server. So you have to drop the 'z' when unzipping.

Daniel


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