Re: comm Command for Large File

[Bob Proulx]

jayanthi radhakrishnan wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
>   When i download coreutils-8.22.tar.xz , it gets downloaded as
> coreutils-8.22.tar.tar.
> So , I get this error,
> 
>  tar -xf coreutils-8.22.tar.tar
> tar: directory checksum error
> Is the tar file correct?

It appears that your browser has mangled the name.  Try renaming the
file to the proper name.

  mv coreutils-8.22.tar.tar coreutils-8.22.tar.xz

Try using 'file' on it to identify the file.

  $ file coreutils-8.22.tar.xz 
  coreutils-8.22.tar.xz: XZ compressed data

If your tar is GNU tar and compiled with compression support then this
will unpack it in one step.

  tar xJvf coreutils-8.22.tar.xz

Otherwise do it in two steps.

  unxz coreutils-8.22.tar.xz
  tar xvf coreutils-8.22.tar

Bob