[lug] help! shell script

[Kirk Rafferty]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, legin wrote:

> hi friends,
> 
> 
> I was writing a shell script to uncompress all the files in the
> directory.
> 
> The shell script available below just uncompressed one file.
> 
> The funny thing was that when i did a gzip using this shell
> script it compressed
> 
> all the files....Can any one help
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> for a in '*.tar.gz'
> do
>         tar zvxf $a
> done
> -------------------------------------------------------------

You want to use back-quotes, not forward quotes, on your for loop:
Like this:

for a in `*.tar.gz`
.
.
.

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