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Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2017 1:35 am**

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?

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2017 6:50 am**

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

Posted: **Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:06 am**

The powertool for this is arc.

arc - Archive utility based on the MSDOS ARC program

Invalid tar magic with tar command. Help.