[ale] Untar a bunch of .tar.gz and .tgz files

[Mike Murphy]

The globs are irritating the shell and/or tar. One quick way to to di it 
(assuming gnu tar and a bourne shell like shell):

dir = dir with files in them

cd $dir; for file in `ls *.tar.gz`; do tar -zxf $file; done

Mike


Trey Sizemore wrote:
> If I have a folder containing a number of .tar.gz and .tgz files and wish to 
> untar them all, how would I go about doing so?  I've tried tar xvfz *.tar.gz 
> and tar xvfz *.gz as well as several other variations, but they all just 
> error out with something like all the files listed saying 'Not found in 
> archive'
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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