Re: Extract tar balls

[Edgar Pettijohn]

On 10/29/21 10:15 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote:

I'm trying to follow _The NetBSD Guide_, but I am stymied by these instructions, at https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-fetch.html

$ for file in *.tgz

do
tar -xzf $file -C /
done

Entering that first line and pressing <Enter> just yields

"for: Command not found."

Are those steps, as printed, dependent on the use of a certain shell? I like tcsh.

try:


foreach file (*.tgz)

    tar -xz $file -C /

end