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# 8  
Old 05-30-2019
Yes, well, I'm not clairvoyant and my crystal ball isn't working too well either. As vgersh99 said, can you please provide more detail.

Please post:

The whole command line that you used to create your tar/compressed archive file.
A listing 'ls -l' of the resulting file.
The whole command line that you are using to attempt extraction.
Can we assume extraction is taking place on the same system that created the file???? Which operating system is that?
When you say on extraction 'nothing happens' what do you mean? No error message? Just hangs with no activity? Or what?

Please help us to help you here.
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# 9  
Old 05-30-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by hicksd8
Yes, well, I'm not clairvoyant and my crystal ball isn't working too well either. As vgersh99 said, can you please provide more detail.

Please post:

The whole command line that you used to create your tar/compressed archive file.
A listing 'ls -l' of the resulting file.
The whole command line that you are using to attempt extraction.
Can we assume extraction is taking place on the same system that created the file???? Which operating system is that?
When you say on extraction 'nothing happens' what do you mean? No error message? Just hangs with no activity? Or what?

Please help us to help you here.
Sorry about that.
I thought that I had written Ubuntu.
I used gunzip -k and that worked for 2 separate files.
I was just trying to follow along with the LA video.
I'm a complete newbie so I don't know what is correct or not correct at this point.
If you could suggest a better video source for learning Unix that would be great.
Last edited by eklinux; 05-30-2019 at 05:04 PM.. Reason: error
# 10  
Old 05-30-2019
eklinux,
please post the complete cli that you used to create the myFile.tar.gz file.
Also post the output of tar tvf myFile.tar.gz using code tags.
Also provide the cli you to untar commend you use to extract the archived file from myFile.tar.gz that's "not working".
# 11  
Old 05-31-2019
cfvz where 'f' is followed by a filename, .ie 'vz'.
# 12  
Old 05-31-2019
@dodona.....

I find your post confusing. 'vz' is NOT the filename on this command line. v and z are switches as in:
  • c=create
  • f=file <name of archive to be created>
  • v=verbose
  • z=compress

Theoretically, there is nothing wrong with what the OP is trying to do; create an archive and then extract it, but there's obviously something wrong syntactically or some such and until the OP provides the command lines, etc that I and vgersh99 have requested, I'm afraid we're all in the dark.
# 13  
Old 05-31-2019
@hicksd, I had the impression @dodona said that in a lightly humoristic way to make clear that order of the switches is wrong, i.e.

tar zcvf instead of tar cfvz
tar zxvf instead of tar xfvz

And that the result of doing that is using a file named vz
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-01-2019 at 03:12 AM..
# 14  
Old 06-01-2019
Linux examples:

Code:
/tmp#  tar cf vz /tmp
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: /tmp/vz: file is the archive; not dumped
tar: /tmp/.code-server0.8680082051055391: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/.code-server0.08925957450408695: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/.code-server0.407659618765559: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/.code-server0.7694071641881257: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/.code-server0.17162571589864717: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/.code-server0.2378604208841144: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/.code-server0.5212314932242741: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/.code-server0.5881111008803521: socket ignored

creates file vz

Code:
/tmp#  tar cfvz /tmp
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.

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