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Originally Posted by kirme3  When I try to untar the file I get the following:
tar: Read 9757 bytes from logger-debug.tar.gz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
I hope I'm not acting like a n00b here  |
That's because it's gzipped (.gz) gotta love extensions...there's .gz & .tgz & tar.z ...
>tar xvzf logger-debug.tar.gz
OR
> gunzip logger-debug.tar.gz (The file becomes logger-debug.tar)
> tar xvf logger-debug.tar (It will create a directory called 'logger-debugger' and put the files stored in that archive in it.)
OR
> gunzip < file.tar.gz | tar xvf -
OR
> gtar xvzf file.tar.gz
on mac OS X, as part of the tar syntax, you can also use -z OR --gzip OR --gunzip
Mac OS X Manual Page For tar(1)