tar help

thick_guy_9 · 03-10-2005, 01:32 PM

guys,
I am having problem with tar.

I have a lot of mplayer skins in .gz format, that I need to extract to /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skins. Given that these *.gz files are in /home/sw, how do I get tar to extract them to /usr...?

I know i need to loop, but do not know the tar switches....

for i in `ls *.gz`
do
tar -xvzf $i -------------------------------> I need help here...
done

bye

druuna · 03-10-2005, 01:35 PM

Hi,

Start from the dir you want to extract to.

Code:

cd /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skins
for i in `ls /path/to/*.gz`
do
tar -xvzf $i
done

Hope this helps.

or1onas · 03-10-2005, 04:35 PM

You can also add the parameter '--directory=<path>' to tar in order to send the extracted files there.