UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All,

I have some files which are 01.tar.gz, 02.tar.gz,03.tar.gz ........30.tar.gz.
when I want to extract the files I 'm using this command "gzip -dc *.tar.gz | tar -xvf -" but it just uncompress 01.tar.gz

how can I uncompress all of them ?


thanx

alice

You don't say what shell you are using, but here is what I'd do in ksh. If you're not using ksh you could always start a new shell with /bin/ksh to do this command then exit back out to your normal shell.

This example assumes that the command ls *.tar.gz returns all of the ones you want to uncompress and nothing else. If that isn't true you'll have to modify it accordingly.

for i in `ls *.tar.gz`;do <return>
gzip -dc $i.tar.gz | tar -xvf - <return>
done

yes I works.
thank you so much