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kkj
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 Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 3:17 pm Post subject: exstract mulitiple tar files ? |
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I have a dir whit 50+ tar files, and I would like to extract them.....
I was hoping i could do it like this...
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cd /"where I would like the un tar files to be"
tar xvzf /source Off All the Tar Files/*
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but it dosnt work ?
The error I get is
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tar: GKrellM-skins/4D_Ladies.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: GKrellM-skins/Absolute_E.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: GKrellM-skins/AbToenAlloy-green.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: GKrellM-skins/aCOW.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: GKrellM-skins/Acqua-Graphite.gkrellm.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: GKrellM-skins/Acqua.gkrellm.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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Help please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Larde
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| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Loop it a little: | Code: | | $ for i in *gz; do tar xfz $i; done |
Hth  ,
Larde.
edit: I assume there are no filenames containing space characters?
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2002 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Unless all of the tar files create there own subdir, you could end up with a mess.
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kkj
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| Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Larde wrote: | Loop it a little: | Code: | | $ for i in *gz; do tar xfz $i; done |
Hth ,
Larde.
edit: I assume there are no filenames containing space characters? |
Thx I will try it , when I get home from work 
kanuslupus, I will keep it in my mind, but the tar files only contains pictures...At least I hope so |
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