I downloaded files from ftp:// via
wget -r -nc ftp:// distribution by years from 1998 to 2016 and per years contain 365 or 366 days
It contains these files (or similar) for each day
I want to extract only the files beginning with "codg"
1 Answer
Create a simple script which will extract files from the current directory.
cat > /tmp/extract.sh <<'EOF' #!/bin/bash for x in "$@"; do uncompress -f "${x}" rm -f "${x}" done EOF chmod 755 /tmp/extract.sh Then use a find command to iterate through the directories to do the operation of that script on every file.
find . -type f -name 'codg*.Z' -execdir /tmp/extract.sh {} + The find command should be executed from the directory of your downloaded files. See find(1) man page and understand the options before executing.
