Example of how to untar multiple files:
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Untar one file
To untar a single tar archive:
tar -xf filename.tar
tar command option
Options:
-c : Creates Archive
-x : Extract the archive
-f : creates archive with given filename
-t : displays or lists files in archived file
-u : archives and adds to an existing archive file
-v : Displays Verbose Information
-A : Concatenates the archive files
-z : zip, tells tar command that creates tar file using gzip
-j : filter archive tar file using tbzip
-W : Verify a archive file
-r : update or add file or directory in already existed .tar file
Untar all tar files in a directory
To untar all tar archive files, a solution is to create a loop. Launch a terminal and enter (in bash shell here):
for FILE in *; do tar -xf $FILE; done