[Jan]

I know.
I’m just not a Unix or Linux “pro”. Since working with the O2s, I remembered a lot from the past when I used Linux at home but I normally don’t do that. And the man pages often lack of usage examples and are horrible to read - especially regarding tar.
The help that I googled (yes, I did that ) was obviously incorrect like in this thread above.
So it’s always nice to have someone to ask.

[vishnu]

tkzip is awesome and works perfectly well under IRIX:

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/TkZip

[mamed]

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

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

[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.

[mamed]

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.

Well just do tar -xvf *.tar than should work I have a sh file i use for batch gunzips and tar extractions so I don’t have to do that command everytime it gets old fast

[jpstewart]

Well just do tar -xvf *.tar than should work

No, it won't.  As I said, the -f option to the tar command takes exactly one file name as an argument.  Any other filenames after that are handled differently.  (And remember that *.tar is expanded by the shell before the tar command sees it.  So if there's more than one file in the current directory that matches *.tar, tar is seeing a list of names.)  You can't extract multiple tar archives with a single tar command like that.

[Noguri]

This command line should just work fine:

Code:

cat *.tar | tar -xvf - -i

[Origin3k]

for i in `ls *.tar`; do tar -xvzf $i;done

there was a solution with xargs also but i cant remember.

Regards,
Joerg