Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar 1.30 fails to extract zip file

[Dr. Axel Braun]

Hello Sergey,

Am Samstag, 2. März 2019, 15:29:16 CET schrieb Sergey Poznyakoff:
> Dr. Axel Braun <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> > I used tar for a while now to extract zip files with the command
> 
> Tar cannot be used to extract zip files. It can, however, be used to
> extract tar archives *compressed with zip command*, provided that
> certain conditions are met (see below).

Yes, zip-compressed tar archives worked always....
 
> >   tar --strip-components 3 -xzf /tmp/${lang_file}
> 
> This command can succeed only if:
> 
> 1) /tmp/${lang_file} is a valid tar archive compressed with zip
> and
> 2) It (zip file, not the archive) contains only one entry. In other
> words, "unzip -l /tmp/${lang_file} | tail -n 1" shows something like:
> 
>    522240                     1 file

OK then...seems I trapped into the later case and took it for general

Thanks for the explanation!
Axel

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