ziped tarball .tgz

[James Wilkinson]

littleguru wrote:
> here is the error message i get when I want to do tar command :
> # tar -zxvf blaxton.ca-20040908_103234.tar.tgz
> 
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> gzip also can not understand the file , here is the error message :
> gzip: blaxton.ca-20040908_103234.tar.tgz already has .tgz suffix -- 
> unchanged

Please run file on the file...
file  blaxton.ca-20040908_103234.tar.tgz
and post the results back.

At this point, it isn't obvious what the file is.

It could, for example, be an uncompressed tar file, in which case
tar xf blaxton.ca-20040908_103234.tar.tgz
should untar it.

HTH,

James.
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