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