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rana.abdulwahid
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tar: Skipping to next header

Post by rana.abdulwahid »

Dear all,

I have create a tar file using tar -czf, now while I am untar the file using tar -zvxf it gives me the error and stop.


tar: Skipping to next header

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors



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Rana Abdul Wahid
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Post by amirtai »

Hello

It looks like your file got corrupted. Did you move it from different server then try to match the check sum with the command below from source and destination files are same.

md5sum myfile

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Amir
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