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# 1  
Old 09-05-2008
uncompress a group of files
i have some 100's of files in the format .tar.gz. how to uncompress them in a single shot

i have sorted the files according to current date and now they reside in a dir called naveed1.

cd naveed1

ls -ltr

file1.tar.gz
file2.tar.gz
:
:
:
file100.tar.gz

how to uncompresse them in single shot in the current dir i.e. naveed1
# 2  
Old 09-05-2008
try :

Code:
 gunzip *.gz

Last edited by dennis.jacob; 09-05-2008 at 02:48 AM..
# 3  
Old 09-05-2008
i mean to say even uncompress tar so the files in dir naveed1 should be

file1
file2
file3
:
:
:
file100
# 4  
Old 09-05-2008
find . -type f -name "file*.tar.gz" -exec gunzip {} \;
# 5  
Old 09-05-2008
Code:
for f in *.tar.gz ; do gunzip -c $f | tar xvf - ; done

# 6  
Old 09-05-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by dennis.jacob
try :

Code:
 gunzip *.gz

Try this for uncompress and extract

Code:
gunzip *.gz | tar -xvf -

Some unix versions even support

tar -xzvf ".tar.gz*"
# 7  
Old 09-05-2008
Thanks got it by the below command

for f in *.tar.gz ; do gunzip -c $f | tar xvf - ; done
Last edited by ali560045; 09-05-2008 at 03:00 AM..
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