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Reputation: 203

Truncated tar archive error

I am trying to untar a zip folder I downloaded of a Bioinformatics tool but I am repeatedly getting the truncated tar archive error. What am I doing wrong. http://ncrna-pred.com/premiRNA.html

Click on the source code on this link and you will be able to download the tar file. I use ubuntu 14.04. Thank you.

Gave the command

tar -xvzf HeteroMirPred.tar.gz

and got the error

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

tar: Child returned status 1

tar:Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Upvotes: 1

Views: 20046

Answers (2)

Kusalananda
Kusalananda

Reputation: 15613

The file has a .gz suffix but is not actually compressed.

You may check this with the file command:

$ file HeteroMirPred.tar.gz
HeteroMirPre.tar.gz: POSIX tar archive

Just drop the z from the flags to tar:

$ tar xvf HeteroMirPred.tar.gz

Upvotes: 2

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038830

That's not a tar file but a zipped tar. So make sure you are unzipping it correctly:

tar -xvzf HeteroMirPred.tar.gz

Upvotes: 1

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