No... if the .tar contains .tar files which also contains .tar file this will not work as this will check for all .tars in the first run but it will not be able to check the new .tar generated as a result of tar xvf "$f"
I am basically looking for blent.tar exemption in this statement
Of course you haven't told us what operating system or shell you're using, and what you are basically looking for is a syntax error if there is ever more than one tar file in that directory...
Maybe the following (totally untested) code will come close to what you're tying to do:
Note that it will exit if extracting and removing an archive fails instead of going into an infinite loop or attempting to remove archives even if they couldn't be extracted as requested in your specifications. ('m not a big fan of throwing away data nor of infinite loops.
Note that the tar xvf "$tf" && rm -i "$tf" line has been updated to fix typos noted by RudiC and mohtashims.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 06-20-2017 at 05:13 PM..
Reason: Fix typos: s/tar xvf/tar xvf "$tf"/ && s/rm -i"$f"/rm -i "$tf"/
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