Unzip Commands

[mwt]

I've checked out the man pages for unzip, and it doesn't seem to have a recursion flag, to unzip all the files in a directory and subdirectories tree. How do people normally unzip all the zip files located in a large set of subdirectories?

[deltaflyer]

depending on which distro/ de you use, you could use ark,fileroller et al

andy

[spoon!]

I've checked out the man pages for unzip, and it doesn't seem to have a recursion flag, to unzip all the files in a directory and subdirectories tree. How do people normally unzip all the zip files located in a large set of subdirectories?

how about something like this?

find . -name "*.zip" -exec unzip '{}' \;

[mwt]

how about something like this?

find . -name "*.zip" -exec unzip '{}' \;

That works almost perfectly, except that all the unzipped files are moved to the current working directory (the default behavior of unzip). I want them to stay in their individual directories, which I assume means using the -d flag. I just don't know how to code that. Help?

[rob.rice]

I just checked my man page
unzip extracts all files by default

[muha]

Unzip multiple zip-files and recurse to lower directories. Extract each zip to the directory it is in.

for i in `find . -name "*.zip"`; do unzip -d `dirname $i` $i;done;

[devnulljp]

Escape the * character:

unzip \*.zip