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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org]On Behalf Of Mike
Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 3:50 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Untar a bunch of .tar.gz and .tgz files


The globs are irritating the shell and/or tar. One quick way to to di it 
(assuming gnu tar and a bourne shell like shell):

dir = dir with files in them

cd $dir; for file in `ls *.tar.gz`; do tar -zxf $file; done

Mike


Trey Sizemore wrote:
&gt; If I have a folder containing a number of .tar.gz and .tgz files and wish
to 
&gt; untar them all, how would I go about doing so?  I've tried tar xvfz
*.tar.gz 
&gt; and tar xvfz *.gz as well as several other variations, but they all just 
&gt; error out with something like all the files listed saying 'Not found in 
&gt; archive'
&gt; 
&gt; Thanks.
&gt; 
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