Greetings, Murthy Gandikota! Please don't top-post. Thank you. And please no cleartext emails in quoted text.
>>> 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. > I see same error > $ tar xvf mytar.gz > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Then what makes you think it is actually a tar archive? What gunzip > mytar < mytar.gz; file mytar says? -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, April 20, 2015 23:47:50 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
