Daniel <dan...@boland.nl> writes: > 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
I think everyone might be misreading. He can extract every thing completely successfully if he breaks it into 2 commands. It is when he tries to have tar call gzip that it fails. Are there any known bugs like that in the 64 bit cygwin tree? Dave -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
