How to untar all tar-files in a directory?

zoomzoom · 10-01-2003, 08:28 AM

Hi

Although its a somehow stupid question:

can anyone give me the right tar command to extract all file of a directory? i tried 'tar -xzvf *.tar.gz' and many others but none worked... (i also couldnt find what i need in the manpage)

Thank you

WiZaC · 10-01-2003, 08:49 AM

Examples:
tar -cf archive.tar foo bar # Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.
tar -tvf archive.tar # List all files in archive.tar verbosely.
tar -xf archive.tar # Extract all files from archive.tar.

WiZaC

jogar · 10-01-2003, 08:57 AM

Try (in bash):

for a in `ls -1 *.tar.gz`; do gzip -dc $a | tar xf -; done

farhanagri · 10-02-2003, 07:07 AM

try
#tar zxvf *.tar.gz
#tar zxvf filename.tgz

yapp · 10-02-2003, 07:37 AM

extract one tar.gz:
* tar zxf filename.tar.gz

extract a certain file:
* tar zxf filename.tar.gz requested-files..

That's why your *.tar.gz doesn't work.
If you type "echo *" you'll see what every shell does, and why tar doesn't see the "*.tar.gz" you've typed.

Code:

for filename in *.tar.gz
do
  tar zxf $filename
done

sthneed · 05-27-2007, 04:50 PM

bash:

for a in `ls -1 *.tar.gz`; do tar -zxvf $a; done

R03L · 07-22-2009, 11:03 AM

for i in *.tar.gz; do echo working on $i; tar xvzf $i ; done

works for me!

lindsayad · 03-23-2017, 07:13 PM

find -name "*tar.gz" -exec tar xvzf '{}' \;

hydrurga · 03-24-2017, 04:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lindsayad

find -name "*tar.gz" -exec tar xvzf '{}' \;

This will not only find all the tar files in a directory, but also those in all its subdirectories.

You should use find's -maxdepth 1 option to restrict the search to a single directory.

ondoho · 03-24-2017, 01:58 PM

... and now let's put it back to sleep for another 8 years!

it's not even a very interesting topic (lots of similar threads across multiple boards).

bobbytables · 05-09-2017, 11:58 AM

From above, single quotes didn't work for me.

Code:

for a in $(ls -1 *.tar.gz); do tar -zxvf $a; done

hydrurga · 05-09-2017, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobbytables

From above, single quotes didn't work for me.

Code:

for a in $(ls -1 *.tar.gz); do tar -zxvf $a; done

Those weren't single quotes, they were backticks.

bobbytables · 05-09-2017, 12:33 PM

Oh whoops, thanks for pointing that out.

hydrurga · 05-09-2017, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobbytables

Oh whoops, thanks for pointing that out.

No problem. You added another solution into the mix.

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