Untaring *.tar.tar files

bubeshj · August 3, 2006, 8:00pm

Hi all,
How to untar a file with .tar.tar extension. A utility that i downloaded from net had this extension.

Thanks in advance,
bubeshj.

blowtorch · August 3, 2006, 8:15pm

Run tar on the file once. If the file that gets extracted still has the .tar extension, run tar again.

bubeshj · August 3, 2006, 8:54pm

When i run tar once i get the following message.
Tar: tape blocksize error

Thanks in advance,
bubeshj

blowtorch · August 3, 2006, 11:19pm

Make sure that the file you have is really a tar archive. Check this by using the command 'file <filename>'. This will tell you what type of file it is, so that you can take the necessary action.

bubeshj · August 4, 2006, 1:15pm

its a gzip compressedd file.Any suggestions on how to untar it.
Thanks,
Bubeshj

tmarikle · August 4, 2006, 1:19pm

use gunzip

gkrishnag · August 18, 2006, 8:20am

use the following command

gunzip -c <archive> | tar tvf -