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Title: unziping a file on sme5.6
Post by: SSBN on June 10, 2003, 09:44:10 PM

I am trying to un tar a file.
I moved the file over to the server using samba
when i type in tar –xzf squidguard3.1.tar.gz
I get a not a valid tar file what am i missing

Title: Re: unziping a file on sme5.6
Post by: steve on June 10, 2003, 09:47:24 PM

that is cuz it is zipped, see the gz at the end
try
gunzip

steve

Title: Re: unziping a file on sme5.6
Post by: SSBN on June 10, 2003, 10:26:10 PM

When i type in gunzip squidguard3.1.tar.gz

It tells me it is not in gzip format.

Title: Re: unziping a file on sme5.6
Post by: Dan Brown on June 10, 2003, 10:45:16 PM

Sounds like the file is corrupted.  The tar command you mentioned first should have worked, too.