I'm using Ansible 1.9.4 on a Debian (Jessie 8.2) virtual machine.
I have a file that is stocked on Google Cloud Platform that I retrieve on the remote via the "get_url" module. But when I try to unzip it with gzip, I get an error saying :
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
I can unarchive the file before uploading it or if I retrieve it via the graphic interface on the google developer console.
Do you have an idea of what could cause this ?
Best Answer
Instead of using gzip, try using
tar
with the gzip flag.z - using gzip compression
x - extract the archive
v - do it verbosely
f - use this file
The reason gzip will not work, is because what you actually have is a tarball, that is compressed using gzip, you can not just uncompress it, you need to extract the archive as well.
To create a
.tar.gz
file, you again use tar.Again, same flags as before, except this time you will use
c - compress
As opposed to
x
which extracts.