This file is double-compressed. Download it from the web page and check yourself:
$ tar -xzvf ~/Downloads/thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors $ gzip -dc ~/Downloads/thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz | tar -tzvf - drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2012-10-11 21:00 thrift-0.9.0/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2012-10-11 21:01 thrift-0.9.0/contrib/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2012-10-11 21:01 thrift-0.9.0/contrib/transport-sample/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 2479 2012-10-11 20:58 thrift-0.9.0/contrib/transport-sample/README.txt ... -Eric On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Jake Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Keith > It was made with tar -czf. You can use tar -xzf thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz to > uncompress > > -Jake > > > On Thursday, October 18, 2012, Keith Turner wrote: > > > When I download the the 0.9.0 release off of the web page, it seems > > that its a gziped gzip file. I had to do the following to untar it. > > > > > > $ file thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > > thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix > > $ gunzip thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > > $ file thrift-0.9.0.tar > > thrift-0.9.0.tar: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Thu > > Oct 11 21:01:00 2012, max compression > > mv thrift-0.9.0.tar thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > > gunzip thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > > $ file thrift-0.9.0.tar > > thrift-0.9.0.tar: POSIX tar archive > > > > Keith > > >
