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gunzip error - not in gzip format
Hi,

I am getting this error

gunzip file1.tar.Z

gunzip: file1.tar.Z: not in gzip format

Any clues? This goes bad only in some recent installations of ids
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The obvious first thing to investigate is whether the file is empty or corrupted.
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use the following command :

uncompress file1.tar.Z
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Thanks for clues.

The file is not empty.

With uncompress I get an error

uncompress file1.tar.Z
file1.tar.Z: not in compressed format

So mostly it is not compressed but still named as tar.Z
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check the file type :

file file1.tar.Z
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The only possibility I feel is the file is coorupt. maybe when it was compressed , it gave out an error which was missed.

If you used a log file while compressing the file, maybe you should check in the log.
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