untar a list of tar files?

Rotwang · 11-05-2005, 05:04 PM

How do I untar a list of tar files? I tried:

tar xvf ./*.tar

I get a bunch of

"Not found in archive" messages, and nothing untars.

XavierP · 11-05-2005, 05:08 PM

cd into the folder you have stoed them and do tar zxvf *.tar.gz or tar xf *.tar and all should work.

btmiller · 11-05-2005, 05:10 PM

Tar takes at most one tar file and interprets all other arguments as file to extract from that archive -- try something like:

Code:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.tar" -exec tar xvf {} \;

edit: typo in find command.

jlliagre · 11-05-2005, 05:11 PM

That won't work as it would try to extract the remaining tarballs from the first one.
You can do this instead:

Code:

for i in *.tar
do
tar xf "$i"
done

TBC Cosmo · 11-05-2005, 05:12 PM

Code:

find . -name "*.tar" -exec tar xvf {} \;

edit: looks like I was too late

Rotwang · 11-05-2005, 05:21 PM

I love this site, I get three different solutions, in 8 minutes, any one of which will work. Thanks,

rw

EDIT: Well, tar xf *.tar doesn't work, but still.

ajays · 10-10-2006, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlliagre

That won't work as it would try to extract the remaining tarballs from the first one.
You can do this instead:

Code:

for i in *.tar
do
tar xf "$i"
done

that worked for me