problem with tar

[justwantin]

I'm using version 13.1.

I have found that I cannot use tar.

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rick[Downloads]$ tar -xvzf broadcom-sta.tar.gz 

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

This command will extract the same tarball on slack-13.1.

Any suggestions?

[gapan]

You have a bad download. tar works fine, you need to download broadcom-sta.tar.gz again.

[Polesz]

Hint, use file command:

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file broadcom-sta.tar.gz

if gzip compressed tar:

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$ file 118750-Extra-Icons.tar.gz 
118750-Extra-Icons.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Sat Jan 30 01:02:43 2010

Testing tar.gz archive:

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tar tzvf filename.tar.gz

Universal compressed file test (-t), extract (-x) use tar -thf filename.tar.[gz|bz2|xz] etc...

Use man tar for more information.

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