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On 05-Sep-2002/20:23 -0700, Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 19:58, Bret Hughes wrote:
>> On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 21:01, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 17:50, Sam Ockman wrote:
>> > > The best way to probably do this is to learn how to use the find
>> > > command. It's complicated but should allow you to do this without
>> > > shell scripting
>> >
>> > It would be difficult to extract the files to the correct location with
>> > "find" by itself.
>>
>> why? As long as you started from the same place, it seems like it would
>> work sine find will return a relative path begining with ./ on my
>> machines runing linux. I know I am probably missing something here but
>> what?
>
>find . -name '*.tar.gz' -exec tar zxf {} \;
>
>That's what you're thinking, right? Tar will be launched from the top
>level directory, and while it'll get the full path to the tarball, it'll
>extract all of the files at the top level. That does not preserve the
>directory structure, as the original poster asked.
A for loop that uses the --directory option of tar and the output of
dirname would do the trick.
for tarball in `find . -name '*.tar.gz'` ; do \
tar --directory `dirname $tarball` -zxf $tarball ; done
Tony
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