Invalid tar magic with tar command. Help.

[Blender]

I'm trying to extract a tarball and I get the following error..

"tar: Invalid tar magic"

My syntax is tar -xzvf file.tar.gz

Any thoughts?

[creshal]

Try gunzip, maybe it'll give you a better error message, but most likely the file is damaged.

[jaspen-meyer]

The powertool for this is arc.

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arc - Archive utility based on the MSDOS ARC program