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Old April 19th, 2003, 09:38 PM
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tar files problems
Hi guys, I would like to know if you guys can help this nuisance that I've been having for some time. I have been having trouble opening any tar,gz files without getting tar (child) errors in the terminal. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
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Could you post the exact error you get please?
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This is the error I get when I tried to open any tar.gz files in the terminal.

# tar zxvf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.3-sea.tar.gz
tar (child): mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.3-sea.tar.gz:Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child):Error is not recoverable:exiting now
tar:Child returned status 2
tar:Error exit delayed from previous errors

As you can imagion this happens anytime want I went to open any tar.gz files.
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What are the permissions on the folder that you're trying to extract the tarfile in?
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I checked the permission on the folder and the file they look okay to me.
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Well thanks you guys for helping me out; however, my problem was as basic was typing -ztvf instead of zxvf.
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