Re: [Bug-tar] tar -tvf myarchive.zip --gunzip does not work

[John Hein]

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...

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8.1.1 Creating and Reading Compressed Archives
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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, ... 
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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.