Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 23:11:07 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I untar multiple *.tar files? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901022307450.11212-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990102234350.7791A-100000@runner.jjsoft.com>
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With a loop. I'm not sure what the last argument to tar is, but if
it's where the tar files live, it'd look like this in an sh variant:
for f in /cdrom/dir/*.*; do; tar xv $f; done
If you do this often enough, a function for that purpose might be
appropriate. Add this to your startup file (needs to be an sh shell
variant, not csh):
untardir() {
for f in $1/*.*
do
untar $f
done
}
<mike
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, jahanur wrote:
> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 23:55:07 -0600 (CST)
> From: jahanur <jahanur@jjsoft.com>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: How do I untar multiple *.tar files?
>
> Hi Everybody,
> I am new to Unix.
>
> Is there any command to untar a lot of *.tar files at one command.
>
> I have tried doing #tar xv *.* /cdrom/dir/
>
> It does not work. Please help!
>
> Thanks
>
> Jahanur
>
>
>
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