newbie:extract multi tar.gz files in same time

[cuongvt]

I have multi tar.gz files and I want to extract them in same time, I used this command but it don't work:
tar -xzvf *.gz

Could any one can help me.

one more question:
Wich command can help me to rename file and folder?
thank you

[Chas.H]

I don't know about doing multiple files at a time, but I can tell you that you should use gunzip for gz files. Assuming that the file is named something.tar.gz...

gunzip something.tar.gz will extract it to something.tar
Then you do tar -xvvf something.tar

as for renaming a file...
It's more like moving a file to the same place with a different name.
like this:
mv oldName newName

More information: is here

[cuongvt]

many thanks

[Jman]

Bash scripts may help you. I think you could do

for FILE in *.gz; do tar -xzvf $FILE done

[pc recycler]

I am trying to extract a tar.gz file. I'm using the following command: tar -xzvf php5.tar.gz /php and I get "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format".

Plus, in SSH client, the file is in red, what does that mean?

[Jman]

For extracting php5.tar.gz, try it without the /php.

ls shows archive files like .tar.gz and .rpm in red.

[pc recycler]

Jman, it seems that if I get files with "wget" I can't extract them because it seems to alter the files. I downloaded the same files with Lynx and I was able to extract them without a problem. It's either that or the fact that I modified the original file name, would this affect extraction of the file?

[Jman]

I don't think file name should matter.

Try running the file tool on files you downloaded with wget. See what kind of files they are.

wget filename