[X-Unix] strange tar behavior

[Eric F Crist]

You're working with a file that has been gzipped.  You must un-gzip  
it to work with it.  The tar command is just nice enough to give you  
a way to compress the archive in one shot.

HTH

On Mar 20, 2006, at 11:14 AM, 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
>
> However, I can use Finder to expand the tgz file, and it looks fine.
>
> Anyone have an idea of what's going on?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Charles
> http://bubbabbq.homeunix.net
>
>
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