How to extract nested tar.gz files easily?
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Solution 1
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 *.tar.gz
do
echo "Untaring - $next"
tar -xzf $next -C ~/foo
done
exit 0
hope this will help someone.
Solution 2
You can use the --to-command
argument to pass each extracted file to another program (on stdin). In this case, you pass it to another tar instance reading data from stdin.
tar --to-command='tar -xzvf -' -xzvf foo.tar.gz
Solution 3
Yup.
tar -xzOf foo.tar.gz bar1.tar.gz | tar -xO foobar1.tar
Should do the trick.
Comments
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StarCub almost 2 years
I need to extract tar.gz a file. It's about 950mb. It has another 23 tar.gz files in it. Each of those 23 tar.gz files has one tar file in them. My questions is how I can easily extract all of them? Is there a commandline tool that I can use?
The structure is like the following:
foo.tar.gz ├───bar1.tar.gz │ ├───foobar1.tar ├───bar2.tar.gz │ ├───foobar2.tar ├───bar3.tar.gz │ ├───foobar3.tar ├───bar4.tar.gz │ ├───foobar4.tar ├───bar5.tar.gz │ ├───foobar5.tar ├───bar6.tar.gz │ ├───foobar6.tar | .......... | .......... | .......... | 23 of them
Thanks in advance.