[Sussex] untarring multiple files at once

[Bill Wood]

Try this

    for file in *.tar.gz
    do
        tar xvfz $file
    done

Bill
John Crowhurst wrote:

>Does anyone know how to extract multiple tar files at one time, as tar
>doesn't accept multiple tar files.
>
>I usually do this:
>
>ls -1 *.tar.gz | awk {'print "tar xvfz " $1'} >1.sh;sh 1.sh;rm -f 1.sh
>
>Does anyone know how to do this in one command, rather than creating a
>temporary shell script?
>
>--
>John
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