Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:51:08 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Wouter van Rooij <aentgood@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar : unrecognized archive format Message-ID: <20041130235108.2684c043@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <7603e5d804113003567e9b2824@mail.gmail.com> References: <BAY17-F42C3567E230C15D96C506FA3BE0@phx.gbl> <20041130002108.GH48369@wantadilla.lemis.com> <7603e5d80411300355684bbf72@mail.gmail.com> <7603e5d804113003567e9b2824@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:56:42 +0100, Wouter van Rooij <aentgood@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running on FreeBSD 5.3 and did some ports and packages > > installation and everythings works fine. But ... today when i try > > to untar a *.tar.gz file I get a " tar : unrecognized archive > > format " error I am still able to untar *.tgz files, but no more > > *.tar.gz ?!? > > > > Did i do something wrong whitout knowing it ;-) > > > This is a newbie problem I think;-) > You have to use the following commands with *.tgz: > gunzip filename > tar -xvf filename ( which changeded to *.tar ) > You have to use the following commands with *.tar.gz: > gunzip filename > tar -xvf filename ( which changeded to *.tar ) No, actually, you can do it all in one step with tar: tar xvzf filename The "z" option tells tar to gunzip first, then untar. -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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