Shell Programming and Scripting

here is the output of tar and the os version:

SunOS, ok.
Then try

Code:

tar xvf rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz

(Do NOT add the hyphen "-" nor the z option, which seem to not be available in SunOS)
Note that this will untar and uncompress your file in your current directory. If you want to perform the same operation but save the results in a different directory, you should do:

Code:

tar xvf rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz -C /full/path/to/your/directory

Code:

-bash-3.2$ tar xvf rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz
tar: directory checksum error

it also has some error.

Code:

gunzip -c rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz | tar xvf -

Or

Code:

gunzip <rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz | tar xvf -

http://www.gzip.org/recover.txt

Based on this error, I'd say your tarball is corrupted or wasn't properly downloaded (maybe there was a network glitch when you were downloading it). I am not very familiar with Solaris myself, but if you're trying to install rsync, I'd suggest you look into another way of doing it (some kind of repos, maybe? Excuse my ignorance as to the package management system Solaris uses).