Not able to untar file

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello Experts,

I have requirement in which a file is present in the folder_test. In that folder there is file called Test.tar.gz.20111102. Now my requirement is i have to rename this file to someother format and untar it....

folder_test
    Test.tar.gz.20111102

I am using the below code to untar and rename it

mv Test.tar.gz.20111102 New.tar.gz
guzip New.tar.gz
tar -xvf New.tar

But unfortunately after the code get executed i get the result as

folder_test
      New.tar

Please let me know where I am wrong...or is there any other method to achive it...

Thanks in advance.

2

Do you get any errors?
What does the command

file New.tar

show?

3

Hello, No I am did not get any error while running the un-tar command....Moreover in the screen it showing that its doing the un-tar, but the when commands execution finish it shows the the same

folder_test
      New.tar

Please help

4

You did not post what the file command shows.
When you are at it you could add the output of

tar -tvf New.tar
5

Hello zaxxon,

I tried the above command

$file New.tar

ouput is:
New.tar: tar archive

after using the coomand

tar -tvf New.tar

result:
its executing successfully but it not doing the un-tar
6

Ok.
-t is for listing the archives contents, that's ok too. I wanted to see the contents. Do you mind listing them? Thanks.