I don't know about your script, but if you want a very quick way to uncompress those files you could just do a 'tar jxvf *.bz2 -C /mnt/extra1/files' Maybe not what you're after,but very easy. HTH On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 18:14, Rikard DustPuppy Johnels wrote:
Hello all.. I am baning my head against a bash script.. I have a load of .bz2 files in a directory (some 100 of them) And i want to decompress ALL of them to another directory.
I thought a small script would do.
cd /mnt/extra1/files for i in /home/lucifer/download do bunzip2 %i done
But as i get to line 2 it burps me a bash: syntax error near unexpected token `bunzip2'
what am i overlooking here?????
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