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Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux | Linux | Tech-Recipes

santhosh — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:22:39 -0000

i got the following error when i extracted.
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Plz suggest any way to extract in linux?

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux | Linux | Tech-Recipes

barretj — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:25:45 -0000

another usefull tar command is this:

tar czvf tarball.tar.gz /tmp/tarball

this will tar and gzip the directory /tmp/tarball into the file tarball.tar.gz

Re: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux | Linux | Tech-Recipes

bofh468 — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:00:10 -0000

Another useful switch is -j for handling bzip2 compression. To do the same as above for a bzip-compressed tarball:


tar xjf filename.tar.bz2