I am using Bash script in Ubuntu.
I have several .mbz files which are basically zip files so I want to unzip them with tar. How i can tar them with a loop and create a directory for each of them.
e.x this is how i did for one file
mkdir course4444
tar -xvzf course4.mbz -C course4444
cd course4444
tar -cvzf course4444.mbz *
But, I have more than 6 .mbz files so I want for each of them to have a directory.
I am not an expert on mbz files. but for simply doing something to several files you can use this pattern.
for mbzfile in course01.mbz course02.mbz c3.mbz c4.mbz c5.mbz c6.mbz; do
echo "file : $mbzfile"
done
will print :
file : course01.mbz
file : course02.mbz
file : c3.mbz
file : c4.mbz
file : c5.mbz
file : c6.mbz
this means you would do this:
for mbzfile in course01.mbz course02.mbz c3.mbz c4.mbz c5.mbz c6.mbz; do
mkdir "${mbzfile%%.mbz}"
tar -xvzf "$mbzfile" -C "${mbzfile%%.mbz}"
cd "${mbzfile%%.mbz}"
tar -cvzf "$mbzfile" *
done
albeit I am not clear what the last tar command should do (since you speak about extracting the content while this would recreate some content.
