this does not look like a tar archive ?

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Extracting a tar.gz file returns, This does not look like a tar archive.
A user asks how to extract a tar.gz file using terminal and gets an error message. A solution is to un-Gzip the file first and then use tar command. The answer explains the possible cause of the error and the steps to fix it.
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2 Answers Sorted by: 3 You have not compressed so do not name the target file somedir.tar.gz — call it somedir.tar this is not really relevant to your problem — tar xvf should have worked nevertheless Recheck your transfer (specifically if over FTP) is a binary one (and not a text transfer)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3331337/autotools-tar-this-does-not-look-like-a-tar-archive

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Autotools – tar This does not look like a tar archive
Jul 26, 2010 at 1:02 Add a comment 2 Answers Sorted by: 17 The problem is not on the build machine; the problem is on the target machines. Not all versions of tar automatically recognize the decompression to apply to a compressed tar file. Given that gunzip followed by tar does work, then the on your target machine is one such.

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tar: This does not look like a tar archive – Super User
2 Answers Sorted by: 3 You have not compressed so do not name the target file somedir.tar.gz — call it somedir.tar this is not really relevant to your problem — tar xvf should have worked nevertheless Recheck your transfer (specifically if over FTP) is a binary one (and not a text transfer)

https://ioflood.com/blog/tar-linux-command

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Managing Archive Files with ‘Tar’: Linux Command Guide
19 déc. 2023You might see something like this: tar -xvf corrupted_archive.tar # Output: # ‘tar: This does not look like a tar archive’ # ‘tar: Skipping to next header’ # ‘tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors’ In this example, ‘tar’ attempts to extract the ‘corrupted_archive.tar’ file. However, because the is corrupted …

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tar: This does not look like a tar archive – Stack Overflow
1 Answer Sorted by: 2 It is not guaranteed that x* will expand to the same order in which the files are split. Assuming the file is split into three chunks then the first chunk would have the tar (1) header so you’ll have to assemble them back in the same way. Use ls (1) with the -t option to concatenate the files in that order.

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2324685

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[lubuntu] does not look like a tar archive error – Ubuntu Forums
Suppose there is a tar archive, x.tar.gz. You can give the following commands, $ gunzip x.tar.gz $ ls -ls x.tar 18080 -rw-rw-r– 1 abc abc 18513920 May 17 12:39 x.tar $ file x.tar x.tar: POSIX tar archive (GNU) $ tar -xvf x.tar The command file x.tar tells what kind of file it is. The last command extracts the files from the .

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https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/extracting-xz-archive-fails/71632

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/extracting-xz-archive-fails/71632
Extracting .xz archive fails – Fedora Discussion
On a terminal, doing tar -xf file.xz fails with message: tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to… I’m trying to extract an .xz archive (from Download — GNU Guix ) . When doubleclicking on nautilus, the resulting folder is empty.

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000052568/vnx-getting-tar-this-does-not-look-like-a-tar-archive-error-while-untaring-puhc-script

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VNX: Getting tar: This does not look like a tar archive error while …
Article Content Symptoms While untaring the PUHC script, the following message appears: [root@vnxnkdc01cs0 nasadmin]# tar -xzvf upgrd-ckv11-29.tar.gz tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Cause

https://blog.csdn.net/huhang600/article/details/50274693

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tar解压文件时出错-This does not look like a tar archive – CSDN博客
tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors 这是个BUG 解决办法: gzip -d xxxx.tar.gz （对于.tar.gz文件的处理方式） tar -xf xxxx.tar （对于.tar文件处理方式） 上述处理完成后再运行解压命令即可通过! 例如上述示例如下做法： # gzip -d File-Tail-.99.3..gz # -zxvf File-Tail-.99.3. File-Tail-.99.3/ File-Tail-.99.3/META.yml lesoutrali bot