[AthlonRob at axpr.net: Re: [PLUG] untar multiple files]

[David Phillips]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 09:10 -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from AthlonRob <AthlonRob at axpr.net> -----
> 
> 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 $i; done
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> 
> I'll enthusiastically second Rob's recommendation.  Once you start to use
> loops they become second nature and you'll find lots of uses for them.
> 
> Incidently this could also look something like this if you hit enter
> rather than semicolon:
> 
> [mrasmuss at cmc02020 tmp]$ for i in *tgz
> do    
>    tar ztf $i 
> done
> <output of the command
> [mrasmuss at cmc02020 tmp]$
> 

That work great, Thanks!  A new door has opened :-)

Dave P