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Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11


From: Nathan Stratton Treadway
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar: Child died with signal 11
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:10:48 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:48:28 -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 17:24:11 +0800, Afriza N. Arief wrote:
> > $ tar -czf tarball.tgz folder  # failed silently (instantly returns)
> > $ tar -cf tarball.tar folder   # succeed
> > $ gzip tarball.tar             # succeed
> > $ tar -xzf tarball.tar.gz      # failed with tar: Child died with signal 11
> > $ unzip tarball.tar.gz         # succeed
> > $ tar -xf tarball.tar          # succeed
> > 
> > How does tar finds the gzip/gunzip/zcat binary to be used?
> 
> For testing purposes, you could specify an explicit compression program
> using the -I option...

Also, what does the "Compression options" section of "tar --help" show?

                                                        Nathan

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