Shell Programming and Scripting

hi All,

i have a file called rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz, i have to unzip and then uncompress it. but at first while i am trying to unzip this file, it is giving me following error:

-rw-r--r-- 1 bravodba bravodba 7278458 Aug 19 08:26 rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz
bash-3.2$ unzip rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz
Archive: rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz or
rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz.zip, and cannot find rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz.ZIP, period.

please suggest how to deal with it.

You should use "gunzip" as you even specified in the thread subject:

Code:

gunzip rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz

used it, but getting some error:

Code:

bash-3.2$ gunzip rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz

gzip: rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated

What does this show:

Code:

file rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz

it says this error:

Code:

-bash-3.2$ file rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz
rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz:     gzip compressed data - deflate method , original file name

I suspect it means what it says, the file is invalid.

Try

Code:

tar -xvzf rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz

Let us know how it goes. If it doesn't work, please specify your OS/version. Good luck, though .