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# 1  
Old 05-03-2005
Question extract tar.gz files
Hi All,


I want to extract my *.tar.gz files like below;

01.tar.gz
02.tar.gz
03.tar.gz
04.tar.gz
05.tar.gz
06.tar.gz
..
..
31.tar.gz

how can I do it by automatically using a command ??

thanks

Alice
# 2  
Old 05-03-2005
Code:
for file in *.tar.gz; do
   gunzip -c $file | tar xf -
done

# 3  
Old 05-03-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by alisevA3
how can I do it by automatically using a command ??
thanks
Alice
It's always worthwhile posting the output of uname -a so that we can see what OS you're using - for example, if you're using Linux you can use the z option to tar and omit the need for gunzip -c (or gzcat).

Cheers
ZB
# 4  
Old 05-04-2005
When you have a file containing the filenames, eg

# cat filelist
file1.tar.gz
file2.tar.gz
file45.tar.gz
...

# for x in `cat filelist`; do gzcat $x | tar xf -; done
# 5  
Old 05-04-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by networkfre@k
When you have a file containing the filenames, eg

# cat filelist
file1.tar.gz
file2.tar.gz
file45.tar.gz
...

# for x in `cat filelist`; do gzcat $x | tar xf -; done
Or to avoid the UUOC and use a while loop (which is faster anyway)
Code:
while read file; do
  gunzip -c $file | tar xf -
done < filelist

Also, it's always safer to use gunzip -c over gzcat as gzcat may not be present on all systems - gunzip -c will be more portable.

Cheers
ZB
# 6  
Old 05-04-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by reborg
Code:
for file in *.tar.gz; do
   gunzip -c $file | tar xf -
done

Accepted answer. Smilie
 
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