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invalid compressed data--format violated on Linux

I created a zip file on Linux environment. I wanted to transfer this zip file to another linux machine. For this, I uploaded the zip file to server using ftp. Now, after downloading the zip file on other server I tried to unzip it on other linux machine. Their I get following error - gzip: <file name> : invalid compressed data--format violated After some analysis and googling I found that reason for this error was the way I was uploading and downloading files from ftp server. When I used binary format to upload and download the zip file I was able to unzip it on other linux machine without any error. Here are the commands that I used on linux file to zip and upload file - $ gzip file.txt             (This will create file.txt.gz file) $ ftp <URL of ftp server> $ ftp : <enter username and password to login> $ ftp binary $ ftp put file.txt.gz Above commands will zip file.txt and upload that on server in binary format On other linux machine I used