Hi all,

What I want to do is untar multiple tarballs, the are mostly resident in the 
same directory.I did a google and came across this command for a loop:

# for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -xvzf $i; done

Which to me looks ok, but I've got a few questions,
1. is this the best way to do it?
2. is it wise to untar multiple files at the same time? 
3. are there any gotchas I should know about?
4. if the answer to the first two above is yes can I then add to this command 
to untar reqursivly through child folders? (ie untar /downloads && 
/downloads/extradownloads

Kerry

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