tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file

Mon Apr 20 19:22:00 GMT 2015

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
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