Can’t extract tar file on Linux server

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In 7-zip file manager I created a tar file (with many subdirectories and files inside). I uploaded this file to the Debian server but can't extract:

tar -xvfz files.tar
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I also tried tar -xvf userpics.tar but then happends just nothing.

Any ideas how to extract this file?

Best Answer

It is a tar file, not a .tar.gz

-z is for gzip

try:

tar xvf files.tar

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You could try your extract with the -i option to ignore zeros:

The --ignore-zeros (-i) option causes tar to ignore blocks of zeros in
the archive. Normally a block of zeros indicates the end of the archive,
but when reading a damaged archive, or one which was created by cat-ing
several archives together, this option allows tar to read the entire
archive. This option is not on by default because many versions of tar
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TAR command to extract a single file from a .tar.gz

If you're risking overwriting files in production with uncertain results, you're doing something wrong. Test first.

tar zxvf archive.tar.gz path/to/file/in/archive -C /destination/dir

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