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
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