suman wrote at 09:47 +0530 on Sep 12, 2008: > I created the myarchive.zip using a zip utility, directly zipped; no tar is > used here. > > Now I want to use tar to unzip it. When I run above command, it ends up with > following error: > ------------------- > gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > -------------------- > is it not allowed to list/unzip files using tar when the compression is done > by zip? Or I need to use some other options. The Manual says with -gunzip, > tar browse the files with gunzip for any operations like -t, -x etc. > Even commands like following fails: > -------------------- > tar -tvf myarchive.zip -z --gunzip > -------------------- > Please let me know if it's a known issue/bug. > > Thank you a lot.
>From the manual... ======================= 8.1.1 Creating and Reading Compressed Archives ---------------------------------------------- GNU `tar' is able to create and read compressed archives. It supports `gzip', `bzip2' and `lzma' compression programs. For backward compatibility, it also supports `compress' command, ... ======================= gnu tar has never supported zip format, AFAIK. bsdtar is one utility that does grok zip format as well as many other archive/compression formats. There may be others.
