untar more than one file?

Sammy2ooo · 12-23-2003, 02:25 PM

Hello

i have searched this board and also the man page for this "problem"
how the heck am i able to untar more than one file?? the tar tool itself doesn't contain
any option for that.
assuming we have one folder with lets say 50 tar.gz files
i have tried the following:
tar -xzf * gives me a lot of errors

is the only way to solve this a bash for loop????? that would be really unstylish

any hints??

Sammy2ooo · 12-23-2003, 02:39 PM

the only way to solve this seems to be:

for i in *.gz; do
>tar -xzf $i
>done

whatever....