From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 17:12:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF5437B419 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:12:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689BD28D45; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:12:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:12:39 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: vijay singh Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: gzip: stdout: Broken pipe In-Reply-To: <3CAB8450.DF73B355@iprg.nokia.com> Message-ID: <20020403201052.V68910-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, vijay singh wrote: > Hello, the gzip utility sometimes prints this message while uncompressing a tgz file. I found that this is really harmless, but is there is a fix for this available somewhere? Some scripts catch the return code and precess it as an error. I am using a 2.x based FreeBSD system. Kindly cc me in the reply. > br, vijay Why not use gunzip instead of gzip? Sometimes *.tgz files are confused by the OS as destined for *tape archives* and hence stdout gets confused as such! Can you repost with a "script" of what occurs when? (i.e. include your command line and the resulting errors as they appear) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message