Tar error opening archive failed to open

tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open ‘. /.erlang.mk/hex/. #747

Without modifying any code in a repo, a nightly build that used to build fine has all of a sudden started failing with errors like the following:

, where . is the folder of my project.

The Makefile for this project is very simple. It has one dependency to amqp_client and looks like this:

Any thoughts on why this has started to fail all of a sudden? And these tar files in the hex folder. Should they come from some external repository perhaps and that repository has changed its structure, or? If so, can I instead make the build actually build the packages by itself rather than relying on a prebuilt package?

The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:

I changed the Makefile now to

, which I guess will build the code rather than relying on a tar file (and now it builds). But I’m still curious about the reason why the old build stopped working. Is it simply that the archive for amqp_client went missing all of a sudden?

Looks like they changed the hex.pm packages location #748

I’ll merge the change after some breakfast.

This has been fixed. Update erlang.mk using make erlang-mk and it should work again. Thanks!

Thank you! Great work!

Hi
I am trying to build the Rabbitmq source code, but download the dependencies by executing the command «make deps» are failed with below error.

tar: /home/z003z7wp/rabbitmq-server-release/.erlang.mk/hex/lager.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory

and i have also tried make erlang-mk command but same error is throwing, please find attached text file for detailed information.

Can you please help me to resolve this issue ?
Thanks in advance.

Can you try again with make deps V=1 instead? Maybe a more informative error was hidden.

I have tried by run the cmd : make deps V=1 and attached log file for more information .
Please help me to resolve it.

Best Regards,
Badri.

You have a timeout on trying to fetch https://repo.hex.pm/tarballs/lager-3.6.5.tar , maybe a firewall or something?

Also you’ll need to install Elixir or you will experience failures later on.

Hi Essen,
Thanks for the update, Yes it was a firewall issue, the error is resolved now and one more error occured while building the code
I am using Rabbitmq 3.7.12 and Erlang 21.3 versions and when i run make deps command below error thorwn

c:/tools/msys64/home/z003z7wp/rabbitmq-server-release/deps/rabbitmq_aws/include/rabbitmq_aws.hrl:75: type ssl_option() undefined
src/rabbitmq_aws.erl:400: type path() undefined
make[3]: *** [erlang.mk:5177: ebin/rabbitmq_aws.app] Error 1
make[2]: *** [erlang.mk:4967: app] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory ‘/home/z003z7wp/rabbitmq-server-release/deps/rabbitmq_aws’
make[1]: *** [erlang.mk:4322: deps] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/z003z7wp/rabbitmq-server-release/deps/rabbitmq_peer_discovery_aws’
make: *** [erlang.mk:4322: deps] Error 2

At this point this is a question better asked to the RabbitMQ people I think.

Sure essen, Thanks for you support
— I will do ask to The RabbitMQ Team.

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tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open ‘wekaUT.tar.gz’ in Command Line Windows 10

I want to extract a tar file that I obtained at tar.gz file. However, when I try: tar -xzvf wekaUT.tar.gz

I get the following error: tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open ‘wekaUT.tar.gz’

I see the file in my directory as wekaUT.tar.gz.

Any help would be much appreciated.

3 Answers 3

Just commenting here as I ran into the same issue. In windows «tar xfv .tar.gz» should work if you open the command prompt as administrator.

In my case, I was building the file to untar dynamically using a variable like

And encountered this error because of the quotes. If I updated it to:

In windows compand promt use quotation marks («») when specifying the path. It will work properly

Exaple : tar -xvzf «C:/PATH/TO/FILE/FILE-NAME.tar.gz« -C «C:/PATH/TO/FOLDER/EXTRACTION«

tar -xvzf «C:/PATH/TO/FILE/FILE-NAME.tar.gz«

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Извлечь конкретный файл из tar архива (FreeBSD ) (в линуксе tar -x some_file -f archive.tar)

Модератор: arachnid

Извлечь конкретный файл из tar архива (FreeBSD )

Сообщение innkeeper » 09.07.2007 15:34

Есть tar архив. Из него нужно извлечь только один файл (весь архив оч. большой). В линуксе можно сделать так
tar -x -O -f arhcive.tar

При попытке выполнить такую же комманду на FreeBSD 6.2
tar: Error openning archive: Failed to open ‘/dev/sa0’: no such file or directory

Re: Извлечь конкретный файл из tar архива (FreeBSD )

Сообщение Thug » 09.07.2007 17:39

Re: Извлечь конкретный файл из tar архива (FreeBSD )

Сообщение innkeeper » 09.07.2007 23:06

mc тут не поможет. Это комманда используется в автоматизированном скрипте.

В скрипте вообще
gzip -d -c $1 | tar -O -x .PKG/deps (где $1 это tar.gz файл)

Например tar в OpenSolaris не может извлекать файлы напрямую из tar.gz поэтому надо использовать предварительно c gz. Задача сделать скрипт максимально портабельным с gnu утилитами (сейчас это наиболее быстрый и более менее надёжный способ в плане отладки для поставленной задачи)

Re: Извлечь конкретный файл из tar архива (FreeBSD )

Сообщение Jay » 10.07.2007 00:06

Re: Извлечь конкретный файл из tar архива (FreeBSD )

Сообщение innkeeper » 10.07.2007 10:54

Да читал я man, вот только почему-то первые 5 строк пропускал сразу =))))) Вообще если так посмотреть.. то это ж кошмар как у tar глючит перестановка аргументов.

Re: Извлечь конкретный файл из tar архива (FreeBSD )

Сообщение Jay » 10.07.2007 20:27

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Проблемы с yaourt.

При попытке установить любой пакет через yaourt вылезает такое:

Для установки yaourt через pacman в /etc/pacman.conf добавлял:

Вот что происходит, если попытаться установить package-query вручную:

у тебя файл с пакетом недокачался

Группа base-devel установлена?

у тебя файл с пакетом недокачался

Вангую, что-то с файловой системой.

Скачай вручную package-query-1.8.tar.gz и положи рядом с PKGBUILD-ом, выполни makepkg

Возможно ли это из-за некоторого количества bad-секторов? ссылочка
Когда прогонял диск с помощью badblocks, оказалось, что все bad-сектора расположены в пространстве, начинающимся после 57% объема. Потому сделал диску небольшое обрезание =).
По сабжу наворочил ситуацию, последствия которой потребовали перестановки системы. Сейчас все работает.

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Why am I getting an error: «Failed to open ‘/dev/st0′» when extracting an archive with bsdtar?

I installed bsdtar from source (from the libarchive website) because I could not find an rpm nor a package in yum .

I’m able to see bsdtar ‘s help message. For example:

But when I try to extract a file, I get the following error:

How do I fix this error?

1 Answer 1

In x mode, all POSIX-compliant versions of tar require -f to read the input archive from somewhere other than the default. To read from stdin , POSIX also requires that you give — as the file name:

Both GNU tar and bsdtar understand that syntax.

GNU tar differs from POSIX in that it will accept a tar archive on stdin without an explicit -f — argument. In fact, POSIX says that without -f — , it should not use stdin at all. It is clear from your question that you’re getting your command line examples from a GNU tar user.

bsdtar follows POSIX in requiring -f — if you want it to read from stdin rather than a file.

That brings us to your actual question: when not given -f — , why does bsdtar choose to read from /dev/st0 ? That’s the default I mentioned above. POSIX only says this default is «system-dependent;» bsdtar chooses to use the name of the first tape drive’s dev node, which happens to be /dev/st0 on Linux. 1

You need to say this instead:

Or, skip the redirection entirely:

I removed -z because both bsdtar and GNU tar will detect gzip compression in x mode automatically. (Old versions of GNU tar did require a compression type flag, but autodetection was added in version 1.15, released in 2004.)

I also removed the -C . bit since it just tells bsdtar to change to the current directory before unpacking the archive. It’s a no-op.

1. Why default to the first tape drive? Because tar is the Tape ARchiver. tar comes from a time when most every Unix box did in fact have a tape drive.

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Модератор: terminus

zabbix# tar -xvf lang_ru.tar.gz /usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/ru/
tar: /usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/ru: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
zabbix#

zabbix# tar -zxv /usr/new/samba/lang_ru.tar.gz /usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '/dev/sa0': No such file or directory
zabbix#

zabbix# tar -zvf /usr/new/samba/lang_ru.tar.gz /usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/
tar: Must specify one of -c, -r, -t, -u, -x
zabbix# tar -czvf /usr/new/samba/lang_ru.tar.gz /usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/
tar: Removing leading '/' from member names
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/index.htm
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/ru
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/posting.php
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/iso.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/common.php
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/memberlist.php
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/mcp.php
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/viewtopic.php
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/mods
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/groups.php
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a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/search_ignore_words.php
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a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/email.php
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a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/post_disapproved.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_activate_inactive.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/group_added.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/admin_welcome_inactive.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/report_closed.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/email_notify.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_activate.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/profile_send_im.txt
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a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/report_deleted.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/newtopic_notify.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/installed.txt
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a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/topic_disapproved.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/admin_send_email.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_resend_inactive.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/profile_send_email.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/admin_welcome_activated.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/post_approved.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/topic_approved.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_welcome_inactive.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_activate_passwd.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_reactivate_account.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/coppa_resend_inactive.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/index.htm
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/topic_notify.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/group_approved.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/privmsg_notify.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/admin_activate.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_remind_inactive.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_welcome.txt
a usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/mods/index.htm
zabbix#

zabbix# tar zxvf lang_ru.tar.gz .
tar: .: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
zabbix# pwd
/usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/ru
zabbix#

zabbix# tar zxvf lang_ru.tar.gz
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/index.htm
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/ru/
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/posting.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/iso.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/common.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/memberlist.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/mcp.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/viewtopic.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/mods/
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/groups.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/ucp.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/search_synonyms.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/search_ignore_words.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/help_faq.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/viewforum.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/index.htm
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/install.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/help_bbcode.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/search.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/posting.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/forums.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/common.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/email.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/attachments.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/language.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/users.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/permissions.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/groups.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/ban.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/modules.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/bots.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/board.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/prune.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/index.htm
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/styles.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/profile.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/permissions_phpbb.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/database.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/acp/search.php
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/group_request.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/post_disapproved.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_activate_inactive.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/group_added.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/admin_welcome_inactive.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/report_closed.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/email_notify.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_activate.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/profile_send_im.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/forum_notify.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/report_deleted.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/newtopic_notify.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/installed.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/coppa_welcome_inactive.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/topic_disapproved.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/admin_send_email.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_resend_inactive.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/profile_send_email.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/admin_welcome_activated.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/post_approved.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/topic_approved.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_welcome_inactive.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_activate_passwd.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_reactivate_account.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/coppa_resend_inactive.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/index.htm
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/topic_notify.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/group_approved.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/privmsg_notify.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/admin_activate.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_remind_inactive.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/email/user_welcome.txt
x usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/en/mods/index.htm
zabbix#

abbix#
zabbix# ls
lang_ru.tar.gz  usr
zabbix#

# tar -zxf lang_russian.tar.gz
# cd lang_russian
# cp -R * /usr/local/www/phpBB2/language/lang_english

tar -xvf lang_ru.tar.gz -С /usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/ru/

tar -xvf lang_ru.tar.gz /usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/ru/

$ tar xvf lang_ru.tar.gz -?strip?components 5 -С /usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/

zabbix# pwd
/usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/ru
zabbix# tar -xvf lang_ru.tar.gz -С /usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/ru/
tar: invalid option -- С
Usage:
  List:    tar -tf <archive-filename>
  Extract: tar -xf <archive-filename>
  Create:  tar -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...]
  Help:    tar --help
zabbix# tar -xvf lang_ru.tar.gz -c /usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/ru/
tar: Can't specify both -c and -x
zabbix#

zabbix# tar xvf lang_ru.tar.gz -С /
tar: invalid option -- С
Usage:
  List:    tar -tf <archive-filename>
  Extract: tar -xf <archive-filename>
  Create:  tar -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...]
  Help:    tar --help
zabbix# tar xvf lang_ru.tar.gz -c /
tar: Can't specify both -c and -x
zabbix# tar xvf lang_ru.tar.gz -.strip.components 5 -С /usr/local/www/phpBB3/language/
tar: invalid option -- .
Usage:
  List:    tar -tf <archive-filename>
  Extract: tar -xf <archive-filename>
  Create:  tar -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...]
  Help:    tar --help
zabbix#

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  Hi,

  I was wondering if someone could help me. I am trying to extract a compressed file (.fq.tar.gz) and I constantly get the following message:

  $ tar -xf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar.gz
  ../ea179s_6_all.fq: Path contains ‘..’
  tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

  Path looks like this:

  /Users/Feri/Desktop/Klaus_Geider/Seq_raw/extr

  therefore I don’t get it why I get the: Path contains ‘..’

  I already tried lots of combinations, like: tar xvf, tar -xvf, the -P option etc.

  Thanx in advance,
  

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  • Join Date: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 2

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  Not sure if you tried this yet, but when untarring a gzipped file you’ll need the ‘z’ option.
  E.g. tar -xzf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar.gz

  Comment

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  • Join Date: Feb 2008
  • Posts: 7140

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  Originally posted by f.pop

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  Hi,

  I was wondering if someone could help me. I am trying to extract a compressed file (.fq.tar.gz) and I constantly get the following message:

  $ tar -xf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar.gz
  ../ea179s_6_all.fq: Path contains ‘..’
  tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

  Path looks like this:

  /Users/Feri/Desktop/Klaus_Geider/Seq_raw/extr

  therefore I don’t get it why I get the: Path contains ‘..’

  I already tried lots of combinations, like: tar xvf, tar -xvf, the -P option etc.

  Thanx in advance,
  

  You can also «gunzip» the file first and then untar it later.

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  I suspect that for some reason ‘../ea17’… is the file name stored in your tar archive.
  What does tar -tfz ea179… output?

  anyhow, it’s a good idea to gunzip (or gzip -d) the file first to seperate whether the problem is the tar, or gzip, as these formats are basically nested.

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  Originally posted by scd

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  Not sure if you tried this yet, but when untarring a gzipped file you’ll need the ‘z’ option.
  E.g. tar -xzf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar.gz

  I’ve tried it following your recommendation, but it didn’t work…thx anyway

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  Originally posted by ffinkernagel

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  I suspect that for some reason ‘../ea17’… is the file name stored in your tar archive.
  What does tar -tfz ea179… output?

  anyhow, it’s a good idea to gunzip (or gzip -d) the file first to seperate whether the problem is the tar, or gzip, as these formats are basically nested.

  The tar file contains 36bp reads (fastq) of a bacterial genome.
  $ tar -tfz ea179s_6_all.fq.tar.gz gives me this (and tha path to the file is correct):
  tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open ‘z’: No such file or directory

  Gunzip worked fine, so we know that the gzip part is OK, but then again when I tried to untar the now already decompressed archive nothing happens. The system just hangs. I’ve tried :
  $ tar -xf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar
  or
  $ tar -xvf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar
  or
  $ tar -cf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar

  but nothing helped. Can it be that the file name stored in the archive is different from the one that I see now as ea179s_6_all.fq.tar? Since I got the files from a collaborator and maybe he uses Linux (I don’t know), can it be that there are incompatibilities between my Mac system and his?

  Last edited by f.pop; 08-11-2011, 01:13 AM.

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  Originally posted by f.pop

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  The tar file contains 36bp reads (fastq) of a bacterial genome.
  $ tar -tfz ea179s_6_all.fq.tar.gz gives me this (and tha path to the file is correct):
  tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open ‘z’: No such file or directory

  Gunzip worked fine, so we know that the gzip part is OK, but then again when I tried to untar the now already decompressed archive nothing happens. The system just hangs. I’ve tried :
  $ tar -xf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar
  or
  $ tar -xvf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar
  or
  $ tar -cf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar

  but nothing helped. Can it be that the file name stored in the archive is different from the one that I see now as ea179s_6_all.fq.tar? Since I got the files from a collaborator and maybe he uses Linux (I don’t know), can it be that there are incompatibilities between my Mac system and his?

  f.pop,

  I know this going to sound crazy but can you check with your collaborator if they made the tar files on a windows machine (64-bit)? I remember having trouble with tar files that were made on a windows machine before.

  If you have access to a 64-bit windows machine you could try using a program like «7-zip» to see if you can untar the file there.

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  Originally posted by GenoMax

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  f.pop,

  I know this going to sound crazy but can you check with your collaborator if they made the tar files on a windows machine (64-bit)? I remember having trouble with tar files that were made on a windows machine before.

  If you have access to a 64-bit windows machine you could try using a program like «7-zip» to see if you can untar the file there.

  
  Thanx for the ideea, I’ll try it. This could be the only explanation that’s left.

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  Originally posted by f.pop

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  $ tar -tfz ea179s_6_all.fq.tar.gz gives me this (and tha path to the file is correct):
  tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open ‘z’: No such file or directory

  This is because the ordering of the options are not what tar expects. the ‘f’ option must always be followed by a file name, so a better ordering would be this:

  Code:

  tar -tzf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar.gz

  That will give you a listing of all the files in your archive. I suspect that the issue is that the files in the archive start with ‘/’ (i.e. absolute location), and the usual process is to use relative locations when compressing / extracting (although looking at the help for the ‘-P’ options in the tar man page, the default is to strip the leading ‘/’). If you want to explicitly strip the first specified directory (which may be ‘..’), then you can use the ‘—strip-components’ option:

  Code:

  tar --strip-components=1 -xzf ea179s_6_all.fq.tar.gz

  Note that since about 5 years ago (possibly longer), GNU tar is able to automatically determine whether the file was a gzipped or bzipped archive, so the z/b options aren’t actually necessary on most Linux systems.

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