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GOT IT FINALLY........... THANKS ERA YOU ARE A LEGEND................
hope i didnt drive you up the wall............. good job :)

tried changing

for I in *; do ...

but getting the following errors

./unpack
+ ...
./unpack: ...: not found
+ continue
+ ...
./unpack: ...: not found
+ continue
+ ...


my code...

thanks for all the help..... have worked out what i have been doing wrong... just got a few more questions.....

currently when i run the script i do so in the following way
i.e ./script foo.tgz...

well when i run it i have various file in the same folder to test i.e - a.tgz , b.tar.gz, c.zip - nothing happens. I have even typed "echo $shell" to see where shell files are located and changed the...

okay please tell me if i am being annoying.... but i think i have lost track of where to go next.... sorry if im not following your hints but this is a massive learning curve for me. I am truely...

hi era.... firstly thanks for your help.....

i know its like you are spoon feeding me but im still unsure how i would handle the basename in a while loop expanding on the first script.

thankyou...

Okay so i have got it down to this.... now i am completely lost...

i know that i have to add a few more lines of code on how the files will be handled once uncompressed. ie : mkdir,...

okay thanks again era will give it another go... kind of going in circles because there is so much that i dont know.... will try recode in simpler form

was able to expand the script using the example as follows... although am unable to make it run... have changed rights of file "chmod 755 filename" and typed "./filename" but there is no result
...

thanks for your help era... will give it ago and post back...

hi all....

I'm a newbie to Shell scripting and am trying to make a simple script that can unpack a variety of .tgz , .zip, .tar or .tar.gz archives to the a current directory

i want the script...