Engrmpa and compressed archives
by taylorkh from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5FR88)
I am using tar to create archives for backup. Here is an example of the command and options from my scriptCode:tar -cpvzf /data/stage/static/$myfile.targz $mydirIt creates the archive as desired and I can extract the archive by Code:tar -xvf test.targz -C /work/untar/The archived data and directory structure are reproduced as expected.
While making some changes to my script last evening I happened to open one of the archive files with Engrampa (Mate desktop on CentOS 7.) The top level subdirectory is shown. However, if I attempt to drill down I get a not really helpful message "An error occurred while extracting files." The same message occurs if I try to extract the whole archive.
The man page indicates that Engrampa can deal with compression when used at the command line. Does anyone know why it would not work in the interactive GUI?
TIA,
Ken
While making some changes to my script last evening I happened to open one of the archive files with Engrampa (Mate desktop on CentOS 7.) The top level subdirectory is shown. However, if I attempt to drill down I get a not really helpful message "An error occurred while extracting files." The same message occurs if I try to extract the whole archive.
The man page indicates that Engrampa can deal with compression when used at the command line. Does anyone know why it would not work in the interactive GUI?
TIA,
Ken