Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:48:31 +0930 From: Tim Peters <tim@lost.net.au> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: using xargs to untar Message-ID: <20020923031831.GD94594@adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20020922201022.R2138-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> References: <20020922201022.R2138-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 08:13:22PM -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> # 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
>
> What I am trying to do is the equivalent of the following:
> # tar zxf file1.tgz ; tar zxf file2.tgz ; tar zxf file3.tgz
Unfortuantly tar won't work this way as it only expects to operate
on a single tarfile per process, and xargs calls it with all the
files at once.
How about something simpler:
# for f in *.tgz; do tar zxf $f; done
Or if you really want to use find:
# find . -type f -name '*.tgz' -exec tar zxf {} \;
HTH,
-tim
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020923031831.GD94594>