file .trz

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I would like to uncompress this file with .trz extension on aix system 5.3, I tried with different types gunzip but I dont get the file like I need.

Sounds like tr.Z but the file. its like ale.trz.

This file come from windows in that format, I transfer via ftp to my junix box but I have this problem i hope you can hel me.

thanks in advance

2

.trz is a new one on me. .tgz is short for "tarred-gzipped".

Try

uncompress <file | tar -tf -

and

zcat file | tar -tf -

and see which prints something sensible.

3

You could first try

file filename.trz

This should tell you if its any commonly recognised compression format. If it simply is a unusually named gzipped (or compressed) tar file then the following should work:

# With GNU tar
tar ztvf filename.trz
# Without GNU tar
gunzip -c filename.trz | tar tvf -