On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 03:58, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> On 05-Sep-2002/20:23 -0700, Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >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
--directory, eh? That's new to me ;)
Good info, thanks.
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