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

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Murthy Gandikota!

> 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?

tar xvf mytar.gz

I.e. drop filter spec.
tar is smart enough to detect and apply known filters automatically.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, April 20, 2015 22:23:58

Sorry for my terrible english...