How to extract filename tar gz file

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I want to extract an archive named filename tar gz   Using tar -xzvf filename tar gz doesn t extract the file  it is gives this error   gzip  stdin  not in gzip format tar  Child returned status 1 tar  Error exit delayed from previous errors

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A tar gz is a tar file inside a gzip file  so 1st you must unzip the gzip file with gunzip -d filename tar gz   and then use tar to untar it  However  since gunzip says it isn t in gzip format  you can see what format it is in with file filename tar gz  and use the appropriate program to open it

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If file filename tar gz gives this message  POSIX tar archive   the archive is a tar  not a GZip archive   Unpack a tar without the z  it is for gzipped  compressed   only   mv filename tar gz filename tar   optional tar xvf filename tar   Or try a generic Unpacker like unp  https   packages qa debian org u unp html   a script for unpacking a wide variety of archive formats   determine the file type      file   Downloads filename tbz2  User Name Downloads filename tbz2  bzip2 compressed data  block size   400k

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As far as I can tell  the command is correct  ASSUMING your input file is a valid gzipped tar file  Your output says that it isn t  If you downloaded the file from the internet  you probably didn t get the entire file  try again   Without more knowledge of the source of your file  nobody here is going to be able to give you a concrete solution  just educated guesses

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Check to make sure that the file is complete   This error message can occur if you only partially downloaded a file or if it has major issues   Check the MD5sum

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Internally tar xcvf  lt filename gt  will call the binary gzip from the PATH environment variable to decompress the files in the tar archive  Sometimes third party tools use a custom gzip binary which is not compatible with the tar binary  It is a good idea to check the gzip binary in your PATH with which gzip and make sure that a correct gzip binary is called

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I have the same error  the result of command    file hadoop-2 7 2 tar gz   is hadoop-2 7 2 tar gz  HTML document  ASCII text  the reason that the file is not gzip format due to problem in download or other

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The other scenario you mush verify is that the file you re trying to unpack is not empty and is valid   In my case I wasn t downloading the file correctly  after double check and I made sure I had the right file I could unpack it without any issues

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It happens sometimes for the files downloaded with  wget  command  Just 10 minutes ago  I was trying to install something to server from the command screen and the same thing happened  As a solution  I just downloaded the  tar gz file to my machine from the web then uploaded it to the server via FTP  After that  the  tar  command worked as it was expected

[linux] How to extract filename.tar.gz file

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