Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 01:19:08 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: jahanur <jahanur@jjsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I untar multiple *.tar files? Message-ID: <19990103011908.A56131@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990102234350.7791A-100000@runner.jjsoft.com>; from "jahanur" on Sat Jan 2 23:55:07 GMT 1999 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990102234350.7791A-100000@runner.jjsoft.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 02), jahanur said: > 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! Under Unix, wildcards are expanded before the command is executed. Try this (if you're using a sh-based shell): cd /destination for i in /cdrom/dir/*.tar ; do tar xv $i ; done -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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