Extract All Tar Files in a directory in Linux

This will first list the files containing extension tar.gz, and then awk will get the file names which is column 9 in

ls -lrth command, and

NF > 2 will remove the blank line and

tar -xvzf will extract files names contained in variable $i,

Like this we can experiment various operations like renaming all files with specific extension of so and can fiddled with to achieve various goals.


for i in `ls -lrth *.tar.gz |awk  'NF>2 {print $9}'`; do tar -xvzf $i; done