[X-Unix] strange tar behavior

[Xavier Noria]

On Mar 20, 2006, at 18:14, Charles Howse wrote:

> Hi,
> When I do
> $ tar cvfz bin.tgz bin
> tar finishes without error -
> $ echo $?
> 0
>
> But, when I do
> $ tar --list --verbose --file=bin.tgz
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Read 2804 bytes from bin.tgz
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

You forgot to tell tar that the file is gzipped:

     $ tar --list --verbose --gzip --file=foo.tar.gz

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