[ale] Untar a bunch of .tar.gz and .tgz files

[Trey Sizemore]

On Wednesday 29 September 2004 03:50 pm, Mike Murphy wrote:
> 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:
> > If I have a folder containing a number of .tar.gz and .tgz files and wish
> > to untar them all, how would I go about doing so?  I've tried tar xvfz
> > *.tar.gz and tar xvfz *.gz as well as several other variations, but they
> > all just error out with something like all the files listed saying 'Not
> > found in archive'
> >

That makes sense now.  Thanks to both you and Jerry for the help.

-- 
Cheers,
Trey

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