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From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
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To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: How to Untar Group of Files?
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Matthew Hunt wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:59:28AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
> > I have a directory with several *.tar.gz files that I want to untar to
> > another directory.  I tested my command "tar xfvz file.tar.gz -C
> > /new/dir" and it worked OK.  Next I tried "tar xfvz * -C /new/dir" but
> > received errors like this:
> >
> > tar: file1.tar.gz not found in archive
> > tar: file2.tar.gz not found in archive
> > tar: file3.tar.gz not found in archive
> > tar: file4.tar.gz not found in archive
>
> Right, tar can take the name of exactly one archive, and multiple
> files to be found therein.  It can't take multiple archive names.
>
> > How should I structure my command to untar all the files at once?
>
> Use your shell's looping constructs; in sh or similar (non-csh)
> shells, something like:
>
> for tarfile in $.tar.gz; do tar xfvz $tarfile -C /new/dir; done

Alternatively,
	echo *.tar.gz | xargs -n1 tar -C /new/dir zxvf


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