Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:06:57 -1000 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to Untar Group of Files? Message-ID: <20011206090657.A38012@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <000901c17e88$218fd190$962a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>; from drew@mykitchentable.net on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:59:28AM -0800 References: <000901c17e88$218fd190$962a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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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 (I find the mix of dashed and non-dashed tar arguments aesthetically displeasing, so I would say: for tarfile in $.tar.gz; do tar xzvfC $tarfile /new/dir; done ) -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Inertia is a property http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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