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Old 04-03-2012
Single command - unzip files from a tar command

I have a tar file that contains multiple .Z files. Hence I need to issue a tar command followed by a gzip command to fully extract the files. How do I do it in a single command?

What I'm doing now is
tar xvf a.tar (this will output 1.Z and 2.Z)
gzip -d *.Z (to extract 1.Z and 2.Z)
# 2  
Old 04-03-2012
Code:
tar xvf a.tar | xargs gzip -d

# 3  
Old 04-03-2012
Hi try this one Smilie
Code:
tar xvfz a.tar.gz

Thanks,
Senthil
# 4  
Old 04-03-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by balajesuri
Code:
tar xvf a.tar | xargs gzip -d

This "almost" works. But somehow there is a .gz appended to the file name which makes it fail. How to tweak it?
======================================
Code:
#  tar xvf a.tar | xargs gzip -d
x.gz: No such file or directory
RET20120101.dat.Z,.gz: No such file or directory
939194.gz: No such file or directory
bytes,.gz: No such file or directory
1835.gz: No such file or directory
media.gz: No such file or directory
blocks..gz: No such file or directory
x.gz: No such file or directory
RET20120102.dat.Z,.gz: No such file or directory
939194.gz: No such file or directory
bytes,.gz: No such file or directory
1835.gz: No such file or directory
media.gz: No such file or directory
blocks..gz: No such file or directory


Last edited by Franklin52; 04-03-2012 at 10:40 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
# 5  
Old 04-03-2012
From the looks of that output not all of the tarball is compress files?

Maybe something like:
Code:
tar xvf a.tar | grep '.Z$' | xargs gzip -d -S ""

# 6  
Old 04-03-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by CarloM
From the looks of that output not all of the tarball is compress files?

Maybe something like:
Code:
tar xvf a.tar | grep '.Z$' | xargs gzip -d -S ""

This is the output for tar xvf a.tar
Code:
# tar xvf a.tar
x RET20120101.dat.Z, 939194 bytes, 1835 media blocks.
x RET20120102.dat.Z, 939194 bytes, 1835 media blocks.

If I do below, there is no ouput.
Code:
tar xvf a.tar | grep '.Z$'

If I do below, it's almost there but the extra , after the .Z is causing problem. Any suggestion how to get it right?
Code:
# tar xvf a.tar | grep '.Z'  | xargs gzip -d -S ""
x: No such file or directory
RET20120101.dat.Z,: No such file or directory
939194: No such file or directory
bytes,: No such file or directory
1835: No such file or directory
media: No such file or directory
blocks.: No such file or directory
x: No such file or directory
RET20120102.dat.Z,: No such file or directory
939194: No such file or directory
bytes,: No such file or directory
1835: No such file or directory
media: No such file or directory
blocks.: No such file or directory


Last edited by Franklin52; 04-03-2012 at 10:41 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
# 7  
Old 04-03-2012
try this...

use awk, if you dont have nawk

Code:
 
tar xvf a.tar | nawk -F"[ ,]" '$2~/Z$/{print $2}' | xargs gzip -d -S ""

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