[PLUG] untar multiple files

[AthlonRob]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 22:31 -0800, David Phillips wrote:
> Does anyone know of an easy way to untar/zip multiple files at once?  I
> figure a script is probably the best solution but unfortunately my
> scripting skills are about non-existent at this point.

Learn for loops:

bash$ for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -xvzf $i; done

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