Tar/Zip/Rar trouble

[J.L. Coenders]

I have now tried it from the command line and 
$ tar tzf mytar.tgz
gives:

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Any ideas?


On Friday 30 April 2004 10:16, Ben Stringer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 16:53, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Does anyone know what how to hidden and backup files into an archive with
> > tar/zip/rar?
> > I want to backup my ~/Mail directory, but somehow it doesn't work with
> > Fileroller so I want to try it manually (errors). However, I cannot find
> > how
>
> What are the errors?
>
> > to pack hidden files. Maybe I am looking for the wrong thing or does
> > anyone have another solution to my problem.
> > And how can I test an archive to see if it works proper?
>
> With "dot" files, you can either let tar's recursion pick them up by
> tarring from the parent directory, or by specifying a regex that matches
> them (like .??*).
>
> Here is an example of the former case. The "tar tzf" is showing you the
> contents of the compressed tarfile. Take out all the "z"'s if you don;t
> want compression.
>
> $ mkdir tartest
> $ cd tartest
> $ echo "Hello" > .hidden
> $ echo "Goodbye" > not_hidden
> $ cd ..
> $ tar czvf mytar.tgz tartest
> ...
> $ tar tzf mytar.tgz
> tartest/
> tartest/.hidden
> tartest/not_hidden
>
> Cheers, Ben
>
> > Thanks,
> > Jeroen