How do I extract multiple tar.gz files? I have morethan 30 tar.gz files and i want to extract them all at once.
i've try this tar xvfz *.tar.gz but its not work.

whats wrong with my command?

you need to specify the "f" switch last in the list, because it tells tar that the next argument is the file to extract.

IIRC tar xvfz should work. You could use for statement

for i in *.tar.gz
do tar zxvf $i
done

please tell me the step by step procedure or an example, im totally newbie. tnx...


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int21h:/home/int21h/test# for i in *.tar.gz
> do tar zxvf $i
> done
tar: *.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
int21h:/home/int21h/test#

i have tried but same problem.

any solution please.

Are those tar.gz files in the current directory?

trynote: those are backticks (next to [1], same key as ~) in the first line, not apostrophes.

Shouldn't be

?? (i.e. there is a ";" before the do keyword)

(same for the "ls" solution)

i tried but same output.
here is the output, take a look

int21h@int21h:~/test$ ls -l
total 2072
-rwxr-xr-x 1 int21h int21h 92160 2005-12-06 14:20 GDM-9nome-Darmis.tar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 int21h int21h 1013760 2005-12-06 14:26 GDM-Angel.tar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 int21h int21h 307200 2005-12-06 14:17 GDM-AproachOne.tar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 int21h int21h 686080 2005-12-06 14:26 GDM-Blueish.tar

int21h@int21h:~/test$ for i in *tar.gz; do tar xvfz $i; done
tar: *tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
int21h@int21h:~/test$

why is it that the * character is not recognized as a wild card of tar command?

Those are tar files, not .tar.gz files. How about "for i in `ls *.tar` ..."

I don't see any tar.gz file. Only .tar files.
try

It's the same thing. Instead of putting ; you can always press enter (new line). The opposite is not correct.

so basically you may write this in one line:
or or it's just different coding styles. Personally I prefer to either write it all in one line if the for loop is small or write it like you did, with the "do" in the same line with "for".

Good to know you can just press enter (I always put the ";", because I thought it may possible to have a file named "do", so it may be necessary to really know where the lists ends. I assume that filename cannot have "\n" inside). Thanks!

It is possible to have a filename with "\n" inside, but the shell knows that, and escapes it. the only character not allowable in a filename is null.

sorry i paste the wrong one. that is the list from my test folder. but from my tar.gz folder it is.