The problem is as follows. There are three tar.gz archives with data. One of them is retrieved without problems, the rest are not.

Began to understand what was happening. When you enter the file command on a normal archive, which is unpacked without problems, it gives the following:

file wav_data.aa.tar.gz wav_data.aa.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, last modified: Tue Aug 25 12:38:40 2015, from Unix

those. it's okay

If I look at the information on another file (problem), then

 file wav_data.ab.tar.gz wav_data.ab.tar.gz: data

How to solve a problem? The data is whole, downloaded from the Stanford repository.

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    Why do you think that data is whole? Have you compared their checksums after downloading with known ones? Can you give a link to the page where they were downloaded from? Are you sure that these are different archives, and not several parts of one? If you make cat wav_data*.tar.gz > wav_data.tar.gz; tar -xzf wav_data.tar.gz cat wav_data*.tar.gz > wav_data.tar.gz; tar -xzf wav_data.tar.gz - will there be a successful result? - MAN69
  • @ MAN69K, link to the base . The result of the technology you described without success - Jms
  • there is an instruction on how to properly unpack. Have you tried? - KoVadim
  • judging by the naming (aa, ab) - very similar to the result of the split, in this case it is just a split archive, and MAH69K wrote everything correctly - etki
  • With a probability close to one, MAH69K wrote the right command, what does it mean “result without success”? - andreymal

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there is also attached instructions for unpacking these files :

 $ cat wav_data.*.tar.gz | tar xzvf -