On 09/05/02, at 05:29 PM, Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>find . -type d | while read dir ; do
>       pushd $dir
>       for i in *.tar.gz; do
>               tar zxf $i
>               rm -f $i
>       done
>       popd
>done

That's a winner!
I just added:

echo $dir

to the inner loop for feedback. 

The total count was 1194 subdirectories containing tarballs.
I really wasn't interested in extracting them one at a time,
or losing the dir structure. Now I can make a proper tarball!

Thanks to all!

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