extracting multiple files with tar -xjvf

logicalfuzz · 11-05-2005, 08:05 AM

how do we untar multiple tar.bz2 or tar .gz files ?
tar -xjvf *.tar.bz2 does not seem to work.
secondly, does foo.tbz use
tar -cjvf foo.tbz foo/
or something else?

homey · 11-05-2005, 08:19 AM

1) Try this.
for i in *.gz; do tar -xzvf $i; done

2) Don't know what you are saying.

mrcheeks · 11-05-2005, 08:24 AM

Using sh

Code:

#/bin/sh
#for file in `ls *.tar.gz`
#do
#tar zxvf $file
#done

press enter after typing done

logicalfuzz · 11-06-2005, 01:21 AM

oh thanks a lot.. i should have tried the script a long time back..
i was foolishly untarring individual files since a long time..

Quote:

2) Don't know what you are saying.

i meant, are foo.tar.bz2 and foo.tbz created from the same command, i.e. tar -cjvf ...?
well, till now i assumed that they are.