On 3/27/2017 11:42 AM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: > > > On March 27, 2017 8:48:07 AM EDT, "Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)" wrote: >> From: Ian Lambert via cygwin >>> ... >>> On a related note, using not ancient Red Hat 5.6 where the mirror is >>> stored, tar won't expand the Cygwin packages? >>> >>> $ tar -xvf units-2.13-1.tar.xz >>> >>> tar: This does not look like a tar archive >>> tar: Skipping to next header >>> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers >>> tar: Read 9640 bytes from units-2.13-1.tar.xz >>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >>> >>> $ tar --version >>> tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 >>> >>> >>> but tar Packaged by Cygwin (1.29-1) will. >>> >> >> I believe you need to tell tar if the file is in a compressed >> format. Not sure if your version takes the same options as >> Cygwin's tar 1.29, but there you would want to say (I suspect): >> >> $ tar -xvjf units-2.13-1.tar.xz >> >> --Ken Nellis > > I appreciate the suggestion, but j is for bz2 on redhat 5.6. There is an "xz" > package we could install, but we're moving to redhat 6.4, with tar 1.23, and > tar -xvf works there easy as 123. Ha. >
This should work for both Cygwin and your Redhat Linux -a, --auto-compress use archive suffix to determine the compression You just need to ensure that the prerequisite software to do the compression/decompression is in place. -- cyg Simple -- 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
