How do I unpack _all_ tarballs in cwd?

SBing · 06-27-2004, 08:47 AM

Please forgive me if I could have found this via searching, but I just couldn't find an answer; I have many tarballs in a directory that need to be unpacked, I wish to do

tar -zxvf *.tar.gz

Is there a clean / easy way of doing this? I don't particularly want to go through all files one at a time :(

Steve

david_ross · 06-27-2004, 08:56 AM

I quite often use:
for file in `ls *.tar.gz`;do tar -xzf $file;done

SBing · 06-27-2004, 09:04 AM

Many thanks friend ;), a couple of minutes and it's done...!

Steve