help !! tar: This does not look like a tar archive

[huangweiqiu]

I split a huge folder:~

tar cvpf - somedir | split -b 50000m

and then,I transfered split files to another server and merge it:~

cat x* > somedir.tar.gz

but when I tried to extract the file, it shows errors:~

tar xvf tar xvf somedir.tar.gz 
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
 tar: Skipping to next header
 tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers 
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

[erind]

I split a huge folder:~

tar cvpf - somedir | split -b 50000m

[...]

Maybe a typo, but it's missing '-z' option of tar,

tar cvpfz - somedir | split -b 50000m

and then,I transfered split files to another server and merge it:~

cat x* > somedir.tar.gz

Try:

cat x* | tar xzpvf -