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?
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Invalid tar magic with tar command. Help.
Invalid tar magic with tar command. Help.
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Re: Invalid tar magic with tar command. Help.
Try gunzip, maybe it'll give you a better error message, but most likely the file is damaged.
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Re: Invalid tar magic with tar command. Help.
The powertool for this is arc.
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arc - Archive utility based on the MSDOS ARC program
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