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tar.gz get an error

Asked by Ramy Al-AShram

i need to unzip a file with an extension tar.gz

i write :
sudo tar xvfz <file>.tar.gz -C /opt

i get this error

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

can anyone help me in this

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Christoph Langner (chrissss) said : 		#1

Are you sure that the file you want to extract is intact? I think the download didn't went like it should.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#2

Thanks for your question.

Your tar.gz file is corrupt, very probable truncated. You need to download the file again or get it from a backup or something like that.

Hope this helps.

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Ramy Al-AShram (ramyashram) said : 		#3

thanks