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tar zxvf won't work with Redhat generated compressed tar file


Hi All

I am using Cygwin64. I am getting a file from RedHat in tar + zip format. Currently I am able to unzip it and untar it in 2 steps as follows:

$gunzip mytar.gz
$tar xvf mytar

However, I would like to do the following:

$tar -zxvf mytar.gz

The error message I see is:

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors


Can someone please  tell me what is the right way?

Thanks 		 	   		  
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