On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Jordan Peacock wrote:

> Quick question: I have a whole ton of .tar files I need to extract,
> but when I try 'tar -xvf *.tar' it doesn't work.... what am I doing
> wrong?

tar only extracts one file at a time.  You might try:
 	for i in *.tar; do tar -xvf $i; done

Brian