-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:01:36 -0800, Drew Poulin wrote:
> I'm trying to extract the files from 108 .tar archives located in a > single directory. > > The tar info page says that tar can't handle a wildcard like * or ? by > itself; it says that preceding the * or ? with a backslash or > enclosing the argument in quotes usually works. But neither > > tar -xvf \*.tar > > nor > > tar -xvf "*.tar" > > does the trick for me. > > Does anyone know how to extract multiple archives with a single > command, or is this just something tar can't do? ls *.tar | xargs -n 1 tar xvf - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ySIy0iMVcrivHFQRAsgfAJ4xwnByn7085xjvXiq+g5XrdUDsfgCbBbcx Om2LtNLfmPDW/XiA5X6WgpA= =38gF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
