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Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_How_to_Untar_Group_of_Files=3F?=
From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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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.




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