This solution worked like a charm (I knew no files would be
overwritten, and that I had .tars in several subdirectories)
Just curious if I'm reading this right though. I've looked through the
find man page, and nowhere did I see this '.' What is the period's
significance with this operation? and why does it close {}\; ?
Thank you so much
-jordan
On 2/26/06, Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> 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 {} \;
>
> .../Ed
>
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