Untarring multiple tar files within seperate sub directories

Jacob9767 · 09-09-2014, 12:51 PM

Hi,
I'm wondering how I would go about doing the following say I have a directory /mnt/xyz/2014/09/ and within that are 15 sub folders within them sub folders are a .bz2 file.

How can I automate this to find all bz2 files and unextract them?

Could someone assist with this.

Thankyou.

keefaz · 09-10-2014, 06:22 AM

If you want them to be extracted "in place"

Code:

find /mnt/xyz/2014/09/ -name "*.bz2" | xargs tar xvf