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

Mon Apr 20 19:36:00 GMT 2015

Daniel <daniel@boland.nl> writes:
> 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

I think everyone might be misreading. He can extract every thing completely
successfully if he breaks it into 2 commands. It is when he tries to have tar
call gzip that it fails. Are there any known bugs like that in the 64 bit
cygwin tree?
Dave
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