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How to Compress and Extract Files Using the tar Command on Linux

The tar command on Linux is used to create and extract TAR archive files. Run "tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz /path/to/file” ...
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decompressing multiple files into a directory with tar, gzip

OK, I've got about 30 .tar.gz files that I'd like to decompress into a directory. What's a good way to decompress all these files without doing 'tar xzvf file1.tar.gz && tar xzvf file2.tar.gz' etc.? I ...