On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 04:38:29PM +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? There was a thread on this list a couple of weeks ago. It involved something like: ls -1 *.tar.bz2 | xargs tar -xjvf so check the archives. Doug.