On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:50:38 +0200 Till Wimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah ok, i think this is a misunderstanding... > > The your archive file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz is corrupt, not > a single file in it. > "unexpected end of file" means that gzip cannot handle the zip file > correctly, not a file in it called "file". Gzip is a stream > compression, it doesn't know anything about the format of the file > it (de)compresses. Maybe you can extract parts of your file using > gzip -d -c | tar x. Or maybe it is indeed a tar file but compressed with some other program (or not at all) and you're being misled by the .gz extension. Has happened to me, too. Use $ file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz to see what really is in this file, then proceed accordingly. --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
