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# 1  
Old 04-03-2016
Extracting to another directory using cygwin
I have a file, in Windows, called php_0.27.tar.gz and want to extract it to


C:\Program Files\PHP\script through Cygwin using this command:
tar -xf php_0.27.tar.gz -C /Program Files/PHP/script But I got an error saying:


tar: Files: Not found in archive

I tried this command too:
tar -xf php_.tar.gz --directory /Program Files/PHP/script But I got an other error saying:


tar: php_0.27.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory

So I tried:
tar -xf php_.tar.gz --directory C:/Program Files/PHP/script But I failed and now I am stuck. I need help
# 2  
Old 04-03-2016
It is a gzipped tar file, try:
Code:
tar -zxf ......

to gunzip prior to extracting...
# 3  
Old 04-03-2016
Thank you

I added the "z" as you told me but the Cygwin still says "not found in archive " this is the result I got so far :

tar -zxf php_.tar.gz -C /Program Files/PHP/script // not found in archive

tar -zxf php_.tar.gz -C C:/Program Files/PHP/script // not found in archive

tar -zxf php_.tar.gz -C C:\Program Files\PHP\script // not found in archive

tar -zxf php_.tar.gz --directory /Program Files/PHP/script // not found in archive

tar -zxf php_.tar.gz --directory /Program Files/PHP/script // not found in archive

tar -zxf php_.tar.gz --directory C:/Program Files/PHP/script // not found in archive

# 4  
Old 04-03-2016
First try
Code:
tar -ztvf some_file.tar.gz

to check which files are contained in the gripped tar archive...
# 5  
Old 04-03-2016
Thank you but I get it . It is because of the space in /Program Files/ directory name :
There is space between Program and Files . In Unix , Spaces in file name are illegal and provoke only errors . Hence come the error "not found in archive" or " no such file or directory " to avoid this , the whole directory path should be quoted like this :
Code:
tar -zxf php_.tar.gz -C "C:/Program Files/PHP/script"



Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-03-2016 at 02:45 PM..
# 6  
Old 04-03-2016
That's not quite correct - spaces in file names are NOT illegal in *nix, and they do NOT provoke only errors, but: they need to be dealt with. And, if I remember correctly (and faintly), that's not different in MS products - file names with spaces NEED to be quoted there as well!
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Old 04-03-2016
Thank you for the information
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