In the last episode (Sep 22), Peter Leftwich said:
> # ls -al *.tgz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  358995 Sep 22 18:25 z_flash-0.4.10.tgz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   27711 Sep 22 18:35 z_plugger-4.0.tgz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  309395 Sep 22 18:16 z_yelp-1.0.6.tgz
> 
> # find . -type f
> ./z_flash-0.4.10.tgz
> ./z_yelp-1.0.6.tgz
> ./z_plugger-4.0.tgz
> 
> # find . -type f | xargs -J G tar zxf G
> tar: ./z_yelp-1.0.6.tgz not found in archive
> tar: ./z_plugger-4.0.tgz not found in archive

try 

  find . -type f | xargs -n 1 tar zxf 
or
  find . -type f -exec tar zxf "{}" ";"


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