*.tgz not extracting properly

Question

I've just received some files *.tgz... I've tried tar -xvzf file.tgz... However I'm getting error "Attempt to write to an empty file"... Am I missing something... The folder directory system has been made but all the directories are empty...

Thanks.

Answer 1

I was using BSD tar... and I needed to use GNU tar.... On Mac OSX use "gnutar -xvzf"