How do you recursively unzip archives in a directory and its subdirectories from the Unix command-line?

Question

The unzip command doesn't have an option for recursively unzipping archives.

If I have the following directory structure and archives:

/Mother/Loving.zip
/Scurvy/Sea Dogs.zip
/Scurvy/Cures/Limes.zip

And I want to unzip all of the archives into directories with the same name as each archive:

/Mother/Loving/1.txt
/Mother/Loving.zip
/Scurvy/Sea Dogs/2.txt
/Scurvy/Sea Dogs.zip
/Scurvy/Cures/Limes/3.txt
/Scurvy/Cures/Limes.zip

What command or commands would I issue?

It's important that this doesn't choke on filenames that have spaces in them.

Answer 1

Here's one solution that involves the find command and a while loop:

find . -name "*.zip" | while read filename; do unzip -o -d "`basename -s .zip "$filename"`" "$filename"; done;

Answer 2

Something like gunzip using the -r flag?....

Travel the directory structure recursively. If any of the file names specified on the command line are directories, gzip will descend into the directory and compress all the files it finds there (or decompress them in the case of gunzip ).

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/gzip.htm

Answer 3

You could use find along with the -exec flag in a single command line to do the job

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

Answer 4

If you're using cygwin, the syntax is slightly different for the basename command.

find . -name "*.zip" | while read filename; do unzip -o -d "`basename "$filename" .zip`" "$filename"; done;

Answer 5

If you want to extract the files to the respective folder you can try this

find . -name "*.zip" | while read filename; do unzip -o -d "`dirname "$filename"`" "$filename"; done;