Re: howto extract all the tar.bz2 files in the same directory?

[Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net>]

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 16:38 +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote:
> I want to extract lots of tar.bz2 files in one directory, and I want the
> extracted files to be of the original names with out the tar.bz2 extension.
> 
> Is there a way to extract them all at once?

First:
        apt-get install unp bzip2

Then:
        unp *.tar.bz

That should do it for you.
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