Extracting busybox-1.1.3.tar.tar

[Wim Vinckier]

On 6/23/06, Denis Vlasenko <vda at ilport.com.ua> wrote:
> On Thursday 22 June 2006 19:04, Gervais John wrote:
> > > Simple question - how to I extract the busybox archive?
> > >
> > > tar -xf busybox-1.1.3.tar.tar
> > >
> > > gives me:
> > >
> > > "tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> > > tar: Skipping to next header
> > > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 head
> > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors"
> > >
> > tar -zxf and tar -Jxf don't like it either.
>
> <joke>
> That's what you deserve for saving the .tar.gz file with
> Internet Exploder.
> </joke>
>
> It converted extension into .tar.tar
> --
> vda
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Or use the all in one solution:
 wget -O - http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.gz | tar xzf -


wim.