Re: gzip format problem - THANK YOU
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 09:03:38PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> irvine@vuosaari.hai.fi <irvine@vuosaari.hai.fi> [2002-08-19 05:46:16 +0300]:
> > On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:02:58PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> > > "Cannot open this file: it does not appear to be a valid archive. If you
> > Note I haven't read this thread from the start !
>
> Me neither! :-)
>
> > I seem to remember reading once that some broswers (actually netscape)
> > sometimes uncompress files before saving them to disk, but doesn't change
> > the name of the file to indicate that have done this.
>
> If that is the case then 'file' can help you out. Run 'file' on the
> downloaded image and see if it can detect what it is. The file
> program can detect both tar and gz files and should directly tell you
> the file type in either of those two cases. And most other cases too.
>
> file xyz.tar.gz
>
> Bob
Thank you. I had never learned the command file which immediately reported the file to be a GNU tar archive as several other responders suggested.
Tom
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