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Extract Google Takeout Files

tmux new-session will create a tmux session will will continue to run even after the terminal has been closed (so long as the system is still powered on). pv -p is the pipe-viewer command that will pipe the zipped files into the next command and the -p flag will display a progress bar as things are unzipped. tar xzif - will take the output of the previous command (thanks to the - stdin dash) and unzip the files.

tmux new-session 'pv -p  *.tgz | tar xzif -'
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