On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:25:02AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I have a slew of tar.gz files in a directory, and I want to unpack them in > that directory. I can't seem to "wildcardize" the usual commands I use to do > this: > > tar xzvf *tar.gz (and) > > gzip -dc *gz | tar xvf - > > both fail to do it. > > Any help, praise, or blame would be welcome at this point! Yet another alternative to prior suggestions: $ ls *.tar.gz | xargs -n 1 tar xzvf -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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