ubuntu extract multiple .tar.gz files to new directory [closed]

Question

I have about 200,000 thumbs in a folder that are all gzipped ending with .tar.gz What I am looking to do is extract all the files in that folder but to a different folder. Does anyone know a command to do this? I found this online but I wouldnt know how to use it to extract to a different folder.

for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -xvzf $i; done

Answer 1

Add the -C option to select the target directory:

for i in *.tar.gz; do tar xvzf $i -C path/to/output/directory; done

Answer 2

Right now you are using

tar

to extract all the files. I believe that you can set which directory to output to.

It would be something like this:

for i in *.tar.gz; do tar -xvzf $i -C directory; done

where directory is the path of the folder you want to extract the files to.

Refer to http://www.computerhope.com/unix/utar.htm (documentation on tar).