On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti <vitoreiji0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:46 AM, dario <darioslc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi! i have a problem for extract an archive .tar, because when write >> "tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz" i get the messenge: >> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format >> tar: Child returned status 1 >> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > Well, if it is a .tar and not a .tar.gz, you should use "tar -xf". Recently I learned that tar recognizes the compression format automatically (apparently, since v1.15 released on 2004-12-20). So yeah, `tar xf' is enough for any archive, compressed or otherwise. :p
