Extract files contained in archive.tar.gz to new directory named archive

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si_2012 picture si_2012 · Feb 21, 2013 · Viewed 36.1k times · Source

I have a directory containing about 800 .tgz archives, each containing about 10 files. Effectively, I want to convert each archive into a directory of the same name. Is there a simple one line command to do this, or should I write a script?

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suspectus picture suspectus · Feb 21, 2013

I think you will need to script this. You can specify the directory that the extract is placed in by using the tar -C option.

The script below assumes that the directories do not exist and must be created. If the directories do exist the script will still work - the mkdir will simply fail.

tar -xvzf archive.tar.gx -C archive_dir

e.g.

for a in *.tar.gz
do
    a_dir=`expr $a : '\(.*\).tar.gz'`
    mkdir $a_dir 2>/dev/null
    tar -xvzf $a -C $a_dir
done

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