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anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 225

extract multiple tar.gz files

hey people

I.ve got a problem here. I.ve got a folder with about 100 .tar.gz files, and I want to extract them all with 1 command. How do I do this? "tar zxvf *.tar.gz" doesn.t work...

cheers

jochen

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From: Germany

Registered: 2004-06-01

Posts: 102

Re: extract multiple tar.gz files

find . -name "*.tar.gz" -exec tar xvzf {} ;