On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:36:39AM -0600, 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?
>
> Try:
>
> find . -name '*.tar' -exec tar xvf {} \;
That will extract all tar files in the current directory and all
directories under it. Which may be the behavior desired- but may not be.
My for loop only extracts the tar files in the current directory.
Just FYI.
Brian