Re: Soundmedem-.10 file not uncompressing

[walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>]

hi all,

instead of guessing you can identify the file using the 'file' utility.
eg.
 file archive.tar.gz
 archive.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix

 file libsx-2.06.tar.bz2
 libsx-2.06.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k


it is much more reliable then hoping that the suffix will give a hint.
e.g. mv foo.tar.gz foo.tar.bz2
(note: i have seen people doing that)

re,
 walter


Frank Brickle wrote:
> The convention is, .tgz for .tar.gz and therefore gzip; .tbz for
> .tar.bz2 and therefore bzip2.
> 
> 73
> Frank
> AB2KT
> 
> On Nov 10, 2007 10:05 PM, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR
> <teners@bh90210.net> wrote:
>> Mr. Bricle, et alia:
>>
>>     Indeed it is particularly instructive to note that the "tar zxvf
>> name-of-your-gzipped-tarball" is presumptive to the fact that indeed the
>> tarball has been size reduced with gzip!
>>
>>     It is entirely possible to use "j" (vice little "z") for bzip, or even
>> to use "Z" (big "Z") for compress/uncompress as appropriate.
>>
>>
>> V/R,
>>
>> Stuart, N3GWG
>>
>>
>> On 11/10/07 12:39 AM, "Frank Brickle" <brickle@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you use the command
>>>     tar zxvf  name-of-your-gzipped-tarball
>>> ?