On Saturday 17 March 2007 13:58, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 05:00:21AM -0500, Adam Porter wrote: > > Thanks for your replies, everyone. It seems to me that there might be a > > market for a simple script frontend to tar that would handle > > shell-expanded wildcards; perhaps it could be included in Debian's > > package of tar. Would that be a good idea? Does anything like that > > already exist? > > You use find to spit out a list of the files you want (you _may_ be able > to just use ls -1 .tar), pipe that through xargs. Something like this: > > ls -1 .tar.gz | xargs tar [tar options -f ] > > for each line of input it receives, xargs will tack it to the end of the > command line you give it (in the example, it will be tacked on after the > -f).
That shouldn't change anything. Tar is unable to unpack multiple archives, end
or story (the exception being multi-volume archives where you need -M and
an -f for each file)
However, find should do it:
find . -name '*.tar.bz2' -exec tar xjf \{\} \;
Thomas
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