Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 22:16:49 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: using xargs to untar Message-ID: <20020923031649.GF30383@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020922201022.R2138-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> References: <20020922201022.R2138-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 22), Peter Leftwich said:
> # ls -al *.tgz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 358995 Sep 22 18:25 z_flash-0.4.10.tgz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 27711 Sep 22 18:35 z_plugger-4.0.tgz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 309395 Sep 22 18:16 z_yelp-1.0.6.tgz
>
> # find . -type f
> ./z_flash-0.4.10.tgz
> ./z_yelp-1.0.6.tgz
> ./z_plugger-4.0.tgz
>
> # find . -type f | xargs -J G tar zxf G
> tar: ./z_yelp-1.0.6.tgz not found in archive
> tar: ./z_plugger-4.0.tgz not found in archive
try
find . -type f | xargs -n 1 tar zxf
or
find . -type f -exec tar zxf "{}" ";"
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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