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Old 07-20-2005, 10:56 AM   #1
satimis
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tarball group extraction

Hi folks,

I have all tarballs for building LFS retained on /mnt/lfs/sources/

Can I run a single command line to untar all tarballs, such as

# cd /mnt/lfs/sources/
# tar xjf tarball_01 ; tarball_02 ; tarball_03 ; etc.

Or are there better solutions?

TIA

B.R.
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Last edited by satimis; 07-20-2005 at 11:03 AM.
 
Old 07-20-2005, 12:27 PM   #2
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for i in *.tar.bz2; do tar xjf $i; done
 
  


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