i actually have a little bash script like that to do it, but i thought i was overlooking some simple option in tar...guess not. seems like a pretty common operation, don't you think? i just downloaded 19 .tar.bz2 files for the new kde-3.0, didn't wanna untar them all manually...
thanks for the info On Friday 05 April 2002 12:12 am, Renzo Alejandro Granados wrote: > it does not work cause tar thinks that the second tar.gz file is the one > to decompress from the tar file, that is due to the way bash expand the > command (tar xvf file1.tar.gz file2.tar.gz ...), so you need something > like: > for i in *.tar.gz; do echo Untarring: $i;tar xzf $i; done _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
