Re: Unattended decompression of multiple .tgz files to a single folder
hi,
I have a dvd-data disk. Written at its top level are 300 .tgz archives.
Therefore each archive has been firstly tar'd and then gzip'd. Each of
the 300 archives contains 2 folders ("Objects" and "Terrain") and each
of these 2 folders contain a number of sub-folders.
The tgz archives on the disk are named in this fashion:
e000n00.tgz e000n10.tgz e000n20.tgz ---etc----> e170s30.tgz--and so on.
I need to figure out the command line syntax to:
1. Extract *all* tgz files on the disk to a single directory,
say /home/hankthetank/flightgear/ so that the ./flightgear directory
contains the Objects and Terrain directories with the *combined*
contents of the Objects and Terrain directories in all the tgz archives
on the disk.
wouldnt' the following do the trick?
for P in *.tgz
do
tar xzvf $P ~/flightgear/
done
i don't think there should be any problem with adding files to existing
directory.
2. The same as above except be able to define a range of tgz archives to
extract, for example, e130s20.tgz, e130s30.tgz, e130s40.tgz, and
e140s20.tgz.
if you have some regular increment,
for P in `seq 20 10 40`
do
tar xzvf e130${P}.tgz ~/flightgear
done
if it isn't regular, just do
for P in 130s20 130s30 130s40 140s20
do
tar xzvf e${P}.tgz ~/flightgear
done
or anything similar.
I don't care how complex the syntax is for this, as it would be a huge
time saver against a gui (obviously).
so as you can see it should be pretty simple. however, i'm not sure i
got your query right.
regards,
--
Lubos _@_"
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