how do i untar many files?

[dufnutz]

i downloaded all 181 gkrellm skins given by the gkrellm site. I want to un tar all of them so i can flip through them to find one i like.
i untared the first file ok and it gave me 181 new tar files for each theme. i figured i could do this

tar -xvf *.tar
but when i do that i get this err

[delta407]

Use a loop in your local friendly Bourne shell:

[px]

place yourself into the dir you want to untar and type:

for somevar in /dire_where_your_tar_are/*.tar; do tar -xvf $somevar; done;

You can also unzip multi file by replacing tar -xvf by unzip -o (to overwrite duplicate file)

[TuxFriend]

[rac]

How about this:

[px]

I think this should work:

for file in *.tar; do tar -xvf "$file"; done;

[dufnutz]

worked thanks guys