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# 1  
Old 06-15-2015
Extract a tar ball into multiple directories
Code:
#cat a
BAC064DAL
BAC063DAL
BAC056PHX
BAC066DAL
BAC062PHX
BAC062DAL
BAC060DAL
BAC058PHX
BAC054PHX
BAC051PHX


[root]# for i in `cat a`
> do
> tar xvf $a/$a*.tar*
> done
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /*.tar*: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[root@logserver logger]#

# 2  
Old 06-15-2015
As you see, the program tar is telling you that it can not find any file with such name.
What name is that?
Whatever this expands to $a/$a*.tar*
Which in this case is pretty much garbage since the variable $a does not exist, in your code.


Assuming you want to extract all those files in the file a:
Code:
#cat a
BAC064DAL
BAC063DAL
BAC056PHX
BAC066DAL
BAC062PHX
BAC062DAL
BAC060DAL
BAC058PHX
BAC054PHX
BAC051PHX

Code:
while read f; do tar xvf /path/to/"${f}".tar; done < a

Replace /path/to with the directory path you need and fix the extension of the file if it is a tar.
Last edited by Aia; 06-15-2015 at 01:56 PM..
# 3  
Old 06-15-2015
Try replacing "$a" with "$i".
# 4  
Old 06-15-2015
Can you please elaborate what exactly is your requirement here
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