[jpstewart]

Gunzip -f ./*.tar.gz
Tar -xvf ./*.tar

Will do all the tars in the current folder you are cd’d to

Are you sure about that tar command?  Usually only the file name immediately following the -f is the name of an archive file.  Everything else on the command line is assumed to be the name of a file inside that archive (causing tar to extract only the named files, rather than the entire archive).

E.g., if you have a.tar, b.tar, and c.tar then typically 'tar -xvf ./*.tar' would try to extract b.tar and c.tar from a.tar resulting in the error messages:

Code:

tar: ./b.tar: Not found in archive
tar: ./c.tar: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

That's what you get from GNU tar and what I believe the standard behaviour is.  So I'd expect the same (maybe slightly different error messages) from IRIX tar, but I don't have any of my IRIX systems booted up right now to test.