Extract and delete all .gz in a directory- Linux

I have a directory. It has about 500K .gz files.

How can I extract all .gz in that directory and delete the .gz files?

This should do it:

gunzip *.gz

@techedemic is correct but is missing '.' to mention the current directory, and this command go throught all subdirectories.

find . -name '*.gz' -exec gunzip '{}' \;

There's more than one way to do this obviously.

    # This will find files recursively (you can limit it by using some 'find' parameters. 
    # see the man pages
    # Final backslash required for exec example to work
    find . -name '*.gz' -exec gunzip '{}' \;

    # This will do it only in the current directory
    for a in *.gz; do gunzip $a; done

I'm sure there's other ways as well, but this is probably the simplest.

And to remove it, just do a rm -rf *.gz in the applicable directory

Extract all gz files in current directory and its subdirectories:

 find . -name "*.gz" | xargs gunzip 

If you want to extract a single file use:

gunzip file.gz

It will extract the file and remove .gz file.

for foo in *.gz
do
  tar xf "$foo"
  rm "$foo"
done

Try:

ls -1 | grep -E "\.tar\.gz$" | xargs -n 1 tar xvfz

Then Try:

ls -1 | grep -E "\.tar\.gz$" | xargs -n 1 rm

This will untar all .tar.gz files in the current directory and then delete all the .tar.gz files. If you want an explanation, the "|" takes the stdout of the command before it, and uses that as the stdin of the command after it. Use "man command" w/o the quotes to figure out what those commands and arguments do. Or, you can research online.