Unpack multiple archives in folder

    1. for archive in *.tar.gz
      do
        tar xzvf $archive
      done

       
    2. single line: for file in *.tar; do tar xzvf $file; done


       
    3. tracking extraction level
      tar xvpf file.tar.gz 2>&1 |
      while read line; do
          x=$((x+1))
           echo -en "$x extracted\r"
      done
       
    4. tar --extract --file=archive.tar --verbose --verbose
      {will show status of every unpacked file}

    5. .zip

       

      for file in *.zip; do unzip "${file}"; done

      .gz

       

      gunzip *.gz

      .bz2

       

      bunzip2 *.bz2

    6. tar.bz2

       

      for file in *.tar.bz2; do tar jxf "${file}"; done

     

     

    Tags: 
    unix, unpack files, extract archive ssh, bash