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Extracting archives to same directory

Asked by Charles M. Barnard

Is there a way to:

Extract a series of archives to the same directory? (e.g. "remember" what directory things were last extracted to.)

OR

Extract a bunch of archives at once?

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Best Abdelmonam Kouka (abdelmonam-kouka) said : 		#1

Assuming that they are all in one directory and there are no other tgz files in the directory that you don't want to extract, do this:
Code:

cd /archive/directory
for i in *.tgz; do
tar -xzvf "$i"
done

If your archives are in .zip format use:
unzip '*.zip' -d DIRECTORY

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Charles M. Barnard (wizodd) said : 		#2

Thanks!