[SOLVED] gunzip: [file] has more than one entry -- unchanged
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The extension is probably incorrect, it is probably a ZIP file, not a gz file. ZIP files can be unpacked using unzip, gz files can be unpacked using gunzip.
Try the file command on the original file and see what it says. Example output:
Quote:
$ zip tets tets
$ gzip tets
$ ls -l tets*
tets.gz
tets.zip
$ file tets.*
tets.gz: gzip compressed data, was "tets", from Unix, last modified: Wed Feb 6 11:07:03 2008
tets.zip: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
Remember: Under Unix and linux the extension does _not_ dictate what the file is (unlike Windows). You can rename tets.gz to tets.i.hate.extension and it would still be a gzipped file:
Quote:
$ mv tets.gz tets.i.hate.extension
$ file tets.i.hate.extension
$ tets.i.hate.extension: gzip compressed data, was "tets", from Unix, last modified: Wed Feb 6 11:07:03 2008
Hope this helps.
Last edited by druuna; 02-06-2008 at 01:52 PM.
Reason: Fixed a typo.
gunzip: TrueCrypt 5.0 Source.tar.gz has more than one entry -- unchanged
It is an indication that there are hardlinks to this file (inode). Whichever way you've ended up in a situation where you have hardlinks there you can wiggle yourself out by deleting all the other hardlinks to this file and use g(un)zip on the last remaining one OR you can make a copy and decompress the copied file.
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