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How to extract the attached tar.gz files easily?

I need to extract a tar.gz file. That's about 950 MB. It has 23 more tar.gz files. Each of these 23 tar.gz files has one tar file. My questions are, how can I easily extract all of them? Is there a command line tool that I can use?

The structure looks like this:

foo.tar.gz
 ├───bar1.tar.gz
 │   ├───foobar1.tar
 ├───bar2.tar.gz
 │   ├───foobar2.tar
 ├───bar3.tar.gz
 │   ├───foobar3.tar
 ├───bar4.tar.gz
 │   ├───foobar4.tar
 ├───bar5.tar.gz
 │   ├───foobar5.tar
 ├───bar6.tar.gz
 │   ├───foobar6.tar
 |   ..........
 |   ..........
 |   ..........
 |   23 of them

Thanks in advance.

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As a result, I manually extracted foo.tar.gz and used the following shell script to extract those * .tar.gz files.

#!/bin/bash
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin
export PATH
for next in *.tar.gz
    do
        echo "Untaring - $next"
        tar -xzf $next -C ~/foo
    done
exit 0


hope this helps someone.

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You can use an argument --to-command

to pass each extracted file to another program (to stdin). In this case, you are passing it to another tar instance data file from stdin.



tar --to-command='tar -xzvf -' -xzvf foo.tar.gz
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Yes.

tar -xzOf foo.tar.gz bar1.tar.gz | tar -xO foobar1.tar

Must do the trick.

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