Extract and delete all gz in a directory- Linux

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I have a directory  It has about 500K  gz files    How can I extract all  gz in that directory and delete the  gz files

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Try   ls -1   grep -E    tar  gz     xargs -n 1 tar xvfz   Then Try   ls -1   grep -E    tar  gz     xargs -n 1 rm   This will untar all  tar gz files in the current directory and then delete all the  tar gz files  If you want an explanation  the     takes the stdout of the command before it  and uses that as the stdin of the command after it  Use  man command  w o the quotes to figure out what those commands and arguments do  Or  you can research online

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This should do it   gunzip   gz

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If you want to extract a single file use   gunzip file gz  It will extract the file and remove  gz file

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for foo in   gz do   tar xf   foo    rm   foo  done

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There s more than one way to do this obviously         This will find files recursively  you can limit it by using some  find  parameters         see the man pages       Final backslash required for exec example to work     find   -name    gz  -exec gunzip                This will do it only in the current directory     for a in   gz  do gunzip  a  done   I m sure there s other ways as well  but this is probably the simplest   And to remove it  just do a rm -rf   gz in the applicable directory

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techedemic is correct but is missing     to mention the current directory  and this command go throught all subdirectories   find   -name    gz  -exec gunzip

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Extract all gz files in current directory and its subdirectories    find   -name    gz    xargs gunzip

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