This is driving me crazy, i've read the man and info files for tar, and read what little info I could find on pipes. I have a bunch of filename.tar.bz2 files in a directory that I wish to unzip and extract all at once. It doesn't appear that tar lets one use wildcards with -xf, at least to do what I need. So I'm trying to pipe my file list to tar -xvy Tried (ls | grep "*.bz2") | tar -xvyf - (ls | grep "*.bz2") | tar -xvy ls | grep "*.bz2" | tar -xvy ls | grep "*.bz2" | tar -xvyf bunzip2 *bz2 | tar -xvv and about 15 more variations thereof, I must be an idiot. Can someone shed some light? thank you [:)]
