tar xzf does not work anymore on my arm system

James Simmons jsimmons at infradead.org
Tue Apr 22 19:17:11 UTC 2008


> On Monday 21 April 2008 21:36, Martinb_ARM_NOMMU_KISSDVD wrote:
> > After migrating all old busybox programs to a recent version I did found the
> > following problem
> > 
> > On old 1.00(pre-3) I can use tar without problems
> > 
> > On the current (1.10.1) I have the following output:
> > 
> > /paste
> > 
> > /hdd/hasler # ./tar xzf test.tar
> > tar: exec failed: No such file or directory
> > tar: short read
> > /hdd/hasler #

I ran into the same issue. Instead of ./tar zxf test.tgz do a
./tar -zxf test.tgz. The dash is important in more current busybox 
versions.



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