Comments on: Linux - Extract all tar files in a directory

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:03:32 +0000

It’s great that this comes up as one of the first results in Google - saved me trying to work it out myself! I had to make a slight change to the code because my gzipped tar files had .tgz file extensions, not tar.gz. I used…

for a in `ls -1 *.tgz`; do tar -zxvf $a; done

By: Bill Gross

Bill Gross — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:31:29 +0000

Tamon;

Make sure you have the correct apostrophy marks. They must be the “backward” apostrophy. On my MB it’s above the tab key, on my Dell it’s also above the tab key.

Bill

By: tamon

tamon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:07:22 +0000

Hello there,

After running the above command, I get the following errors:

ls: No match.
for: Command not found.
a: Undefined variable.