Comments on: Extract a gzip compressed tar archive in Linux

By: smeezekitty

smeezekitty — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:26:13 +0000

santhosh are you sure its not a bzip not gzip

By: santhosh

santhosh — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:22:39 +0000

i got the following error when i extracted.
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Plz suggest any way to extract in linux?

By: barretj

barretj — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:25:45 +0000

another usefull tar command is this:

tar czvf tarball.tar.gz /tmp/tarball

this will tar and gzip the directory /tmp/tarball into the file tarball.tar.gz

By: bofh468

bofh468 — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:00:10 +0000

Another useful switch is -j for handling bzip2 compression. To do the same as above for a bzip-compressed tarball:

tar xjf filename.tar.bz2