I'm having difficulty with tar on a headless Ubuntu Server 12:
ubuntu@domU-12-31-39-02-C0-98:~$ wget -o dropbox.tar.gz ""
ubuntu@domU-12-31-39-02-C0-98:~$ tar -xzvf dropbox.tar.gz
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
If I download the file on Windows, I can unpack it with 7-zip just fine. What am I doing wrong with tar?
1 Answer
The -o option of wget specifies where to put the log file.
You'll find that your dropbox.tar.gz is a plain text file containing diagnostic messages from wget.
Try this:
wget -O dropbox.tar.gz ""
