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. > or Perl (which imho is always better than shell > scripting). Perl is good for what's it's good for. This task is clearly suited to the shell, as are many others. Perl is often overkill. > You could also try the poor man's version...which would be this. I > can't guarantee it will work, and don't have anywhere to test it, but > it sounds like it should. > > tar -xzf */*/*.tar.gz That'll extract all of the files to the toplevel directory, wrecking the structure. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
