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How to extract nested tar.gz files easily?

Answer 1

A:

Yup.

tar -xzOf foo.tar.gz bar1.tar.gz | tar -xO foobar1.tar

Should do the trick.

David Wolever 2010-05-06 03:27:10

And, of course, wrap that up in a small script (or copy+paste the line 23 times ^_^) and you should be golden.

David Wolever 2010-05-06 03:28:57

thanks but that didn't actually work.

StarCub 2010-05-06 11:32:08

If you could explain why it didn't work, there's a better chance I'd be able to tell you what's wrong… But since you've already solved it, I guess that isn't too important.

David Wolever 2010-05-06 12:37:12

@StarCub: I'm guessing you need another `z` in there somewhere and maybe one less `O`. Perhaps `tar -xzOf foo.tar.gz bar1.tar.gz | tar -xz foobar1.tar`

Dennis Williamson 2010-05-06 13:27:24

Answer 2

A:

I ended up manually extracted foo.tar.gz and using the following shell script to extract those bar*.tar.gz files.

#!/bin/bash
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin
export PATH
for next in `ls *.tar.gz`
    do
        echo "Untaring - $next"
        tar -xzf $next -C ~/foo
    done
exit 0

hope this will help someone.

StarCub 2010-05-06 11:48:45

Although your solution worked, if you want to learn why you shouldn't use the output of ls in the way you have, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1956144/bash-script-to-rename-all-files-in-a-directory/1956165#1956165 ... I find the answers (to that question) which use the `find` command interesting in particular.

James Morris 2010-05-06 21:23:29

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