This does not look like a tar archive

tar

Solution

Run the command

$ file ALLscripts.tar.gz

Compare the output, if it's gzip (as shown below) then use `unzip` tool to extract it

$ ALLscripts.tar.gz: gzip compressed data,from Unix

Problem

`[root@c0002242 lfeng]# tar -zxvf /opt/test/ALLscripts.tar.gz -C /opt/test1` tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Could you please help me on this ?

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