Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:20:02 -0800 (PST) From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: <drew@mykitchentable.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_How_to_Untar_Group_of_Files=3F?= Message-ID: <1766.165.107.42.150.1007666402.squirrel@www.mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <20011206090657.A38012@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <20011206090657.A38012@wopr.caltech.edu>
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Matthew Hunt said: > 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 > ) Thanks!!! I'll try it. Drew > > -- > 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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