gzip stdin not in gzip format tar Child returned status 1 tar Error is not recoverable exiting now

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I have a bash script that creates a tar gz and encrypts then sends to drive   However I cannot open the  tar gz afterwards   Here is my process     Bash Script that encrypts      bin sh    tar the automysqlbackup directory tar -zcf  red-backup-  date    Y- m- d   tar gz   var lib automysqlbackup     encrypt the tar openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in  red-backup-  date    Y- m- d   tar gz  -out  red-backup-  date    Y- m- d   tar gz enc  -pass  pass MySecretPWD     remove the original tar rm -rf  red-backup-  date    Y- m- d   tar gz     upload to google drive gdrive upload --file  red-backup-  date    Y- m- d   tar gz enc  -p  jofhriout849uioejfoiu09    then I download the file and use   sudo openssl aes-256-cbc -e -in red-backup-2016-09-22 tar gz enc -out red-backup-2016-09-22 tar gz   I then enter the passphrase for my file twice and I now get a file called  red-backup-2016-09-22 tar gz   When I then try   sudo tar -zxvf red-backup-2016-09-22 tar gz   and get   gzip  stdin  not in gzip format tar  Child returned status 1 tar  Error is not recoverable  exiting now   I have also tried renaming the file  tar and also trying  sudo tar xvf red-backup-2016-09-22 tar gz   and   sudo tar xvf red-backup-2016-09-22 tar  tar  This does not look like a tar archive tar  Skipping to next header tar  Exiting with failure status due to previous errors   Any ideas where I am going wrong

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First check the type of compression using the file command:

file name_name.tgz

O/P- If output is " XZ compressed data"

Then use tar xf <archive name> to unzip the file, e.g.

tar xf archive.tar.xz
tar xf archive.tar.gz
tar xf archive.tar
tar xf archive.tgz

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sudo tar -xvzf   PhpStorm-2018 3 4 tar gz

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This probably because of your gzip version incompatibility    Check these points first      which gzip    usr bin gzip   or  bin gzip     It should be either  bin gzip or  usr bin gzip  If your gzip points to some other gzip application please try by removing that path from your PATH env variable    Next is     gzip -V   gzip 1 3 5  2002-09-30   Your problem can be resolve with these check points

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I had the same issue  It was damaged the archive file

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Initially  check the type of compression with the below command      file  lt file name gt  If the output is a Posix compressed file  use the below command to uncompress      tar xvf  lt file name gt

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Add   quot -O file tgz quot  or  quot -O file tar gz quot   at the end wget command and extract   quot file tgz quot  or  quot file tar gz quot  Here is the sample code for google colab-  wget -q  --trust-server-names  https   downloads apache org spark spark-3 0 0 spark-3 0 0-bin-hadoop2 7 tgz  -O file tgz  print  quot Download completed successfully     quot    tar zxvf  file tgz   Note- Please ensure that http path for tgz is valid and file is not corrupted

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Just click first on that link and go to HTML page where actual downloads or mirrors are   Its really misleading to have full link which ends in  tgz when it actually leads to HTML page where real download links are  I had this problem downloading Apache Spark and wget-ing it into Ubuntu    https   spark apache org downloads html

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cd  Whatever Directory Path The File Is In  chmod  x xampp-linux-x64-7 0 6-0-installer run  sudo   xampp-linux-x64-7 0 6-0-installer run   It works  For more information refer  https   forums linuxmint com viewtopic php t 223639

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Sometimes the  gz extension is wrongfully appended to the filename   Run file foo csv gz to know the actual file type  Rename the file to foo csv or whatever the actual file type is

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This means the file isn t really a gzipped tar file -- or any kind of gzipped file -- in spite of being named like one   When you download a file with wget  check for indications like Length  unspecified  text html  which shows it is plain text  text  and that it is intended to be interpreted as html  Check the wget output below -   root XXXXX opt   wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header  Cookie  gpw e24 http 3A 2F 2Fwww oracle com 2F  oraclelicense accept-securebackup-cookie   http   download oracle com otn-pub java jdk 8u144-b01 090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135 jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz  --2017-10-12 12 39 40--  http   download oracle com otn-pub java jdk 8u144-b01 090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135 jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz Resolving download oracle com  download oracle com     23 72 136 27  23 72 136 67 Connecting to download oracle com  download oracle com  23 72 136 27  80    connected  HTTP request sent  awaiting response    302 Not Allowed Location  http   XXXX FAQs URLFiltering ProxyWarning html  following  --2017-10-12 12 39 40--  http   XXXX FAQs URLFiltering ProxyWarning html Resolving XXXX  XXXXX     XXX XX XX XXX Connecting to XXXX  XXXX  XXX XX XX XXX  80    connected  HTTP request sent  awaiting response    200 OK Length  17121  17K   text html  Saving to     jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz     100                                                                                                                                                                            gt   17 121      -- -K s   in 0 05s     2017-10-12 12 39 40  349 KB s  -    jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz    saved  17121 17121    This sort of confirms that you haven t received a gzip file   For a correct file  the wget output will show something like Length  185515842  177M   application x-gzip  as shown in the below output -   root txcdtl01ss270n opt   wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header  Cookie  gpw e24 http 3A 2F 2Fwww oracle com 2F  oraclelicense accept-securebackup-cookie   http   download oracle com otn-pub java jdk 8u144-b01 090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135 jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz  --2017-10-12 12 50 06--  http   download oracle com otn-pub java jdk 8u144-b01 090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135 jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz Resolving download oracle com  download oracle com     XX XXX XX XX  XX XX XXX XX Connecting to download oracle com  download oracle com  XX XX XXX XX  80    connected  HTTP request sent  awaiting response    302 Moved Temporarily Location  https   edelivery oracle com otn-pub java jdk 8u144-b01 090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135 jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz  following  --2017-10-12 12 50 06--  https   edelivery oracle com otn-pub java jdk 8u144-b01 090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135 jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz Resolving edelivery oracle com  edelivery oracle com     XXX XX XXX XX  2600 1404 16 188  2d3e  2600 1404 16 180  2d3e Connecting to edelivery oracle com  edelivery oracle com  XXX XX XX XXX  443    connected  HTTP request sent  awaiting response    302 Moved Temporarily Location  http   download oracle com otn-pub java jdk 8u144-b01 090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135 jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz AuthParam 1507827127 f44251ebbb44c6e61e7f202677f94afd  following  --2017-10-12 12 50 07--  http   download oracle com otn-pub java jdk 8u144-b01 090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135 jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz AuthParam 1507827127 f44251ebbb44c6e61 Connecting to download oracle com  download oracle com  XX XX XXX XX  80    connected  HTTP request sent  awaiting response    200 OK Length  185515842  177M   application x-gzip  Saving to     jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz     100                                                                                                                                                                            gt   185 515 842 6 60MB s   in 28s      2017-10-12 12 50 34  6 43 MB s  -    jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz    saved  185515842 185515842    The above shows a correct gzip application file has been downloaded    You can also file  head  less  view utilities to check the file  For example a HTML file would give below output -   root XXXXXX opt   head jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz  lt  doctype html gt   lt html lang  en  gt    lt head gt       lt meta charset  utf-8  gt       lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE edge  gt       lt meta name  viewport  content  width device-width  initial-scale 1  gt       lt link href   css print css  rel  stylesheet  media  print  gt       lt link href   css main css  rel  stylesheet  media  screen  gt       lt link href   css font-awesome min css  rel  stylesheet  gt    The above shows it is indeed an HTML page which we are trying to unzip untar - something that won t work  If it was indeed a correct zip file  binary in nature  the output of head would have produced garbage - something like below -   root XXXX opt   head jdk-8u144-linux-x64 tar gz  x rY  ms F       t l   DR      j                                             0 h            Q w      Hbfz       i x  k          z   w    g           s    w     7 N    i            g            7  s               i  j                 gt                      3   X    9      u      g  lt    H 8 F R t o L u  S  ds5 2 EZn t                                                                                                                                                      N3      lt      q   R N gq Uv    p   rL  M  u    Q 5 T  BNw      lt  gt  7G    Mt4WY Gi     p   VIN3     ek  0  G                                               lt L c e t-   2   G  ia  I  lt  g3   d H     2   lt I A 6 W   lt   C       h  A0QL 2 4 -   x     t t1  f  gt  A   Lr                           Fe MBH     C Q r S   lt M b  lt  5       s   c  sp f  g     k   4    kh    Z   d      -  N   e  s  H VQ  3   2  r v  o     A       B l A       0  1  5  4g       Se    H 2     t  5 Df     1   b   h Op     Lvb p  b 8  Y   n                                                                            O         lW lu    N M        0       q        K    d   aw4         7  ky o         t  k  f     vo    o           Pn                      K FA     n2    v    Ok  r4 c5 x      amp w      o      2   i                                                                                 a0  Ag d    GH G7  g   b    b  rt m          t0      lt             5 q t  K    Z lt        1   x p t    G F      i     p8     H    dMLE  e     n   h     0w   6A  M x fpeB gt  amp    MO                           n       5    Mx  d  YAn      w gt   S  FA9 J k       Try downloading from the official site and check if their download links have changed  Also check your proxy settings and make sure you have the right proxies enabled to download wget it from the correct source   Hope this helps

[linux] gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

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