Untar multiple *.tar.gz.aa *.tar.gz.ab pattern files

Question

I tarred a folder and split it into tar.gz files of 200mb when zipping. How can I go about unzipping them? Is there a way I can do this in one command or do I have to do each one separately?

Answer 1

You even cannot do it separately.

Just undo what you did in reversed order:

• first concatenate them
• then unzip them
• then untar

So you do

cat *.tar.gz.* | zcat | tar xvf -

or, even shorter,

cat *.tar.gz.* | tar xvfz -

Answer 2

You can use the bellow :

$ cat *.tar | tar -xvf - -i

cat command, listed .tar files, then listed files will extracted with tar -xvf - -i command.