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Old October 13th, 2004, 02:20 PM
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un-tarballing
Help! I am not familiar with un-tarballing files. I have a file that I uploaded to my httpdocs directory and am running this command:

tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz

...but I keep getting this message:

tar (child): filename.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

What's going on? Why can't I open this tar file? Why is it saying that it can't find the file... it's right there in that directory? Any help is much appreciated!
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Old October 14th, 2004, 12:15 PM
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Hello? Is there anyone out there? I know it's a simple thing that I'm doing wrong... any sort of suggestion would be helpful. Thanks.
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Old October 14th, 2004, 02:30 PM
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Maybe an unprintable character in the filename? Try:
ls -b
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Old October 14th, 2004, 02:38 PM
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Thanks for replying. I get the same response: No such file or directory.

This isn't some small program that I am trying to install here... I'm trying to install phpMyAdmin. I was just following their instructions.
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Old October 14th, 2004, 05:52 PM
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If neither tar nor ls can see the file, what is leading you into thinking it exists?
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Old October 15th, 2004, 07:43 AM
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Your tar file appears to be gzipped (from the .gz extension).
You need to unzip it first before you untar it:

If your gzipped tar file exist in your current directory then using one of the two methods below:

Code:
#-- In two steps:
gzip -d filename.tar.gz
tar xvf filename.tar

#-- In one go
gzip -dc filename.tar.gz |tar xvf -
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Old October 15th, 2004, 09:26 AM
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The gnu version of tar supports -z which will automatically unzip the archive. And he specified -z.
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Old October 15th, 2004, 03:10 PM
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Thanks guys... I figured out my problem... and it's too stupid to mention here. That's what I get for working to fast and not paying attention. Thanks again for the help though...
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