Hi, I got a directory of ZIP files (created on a Windows machine), I can manually unzip them using "unzip filename" but how can I unzip all the ZIP files in the current folder via a shell scripts?
Using Unbuntu Linux Server.
Thanks
Yeah, unzip supports wildcards, no need for anything fancy.
Chad Birch
2010-03-03 20:45:57
the correct invocation is unzip \\*.zip
fuzzy lollipop
2010-03-03 20:47:59
-1 doesn't work
sfussenegger
2010-03-03 20:48:47
This is incorrect.
geocar
2010-03-03 20:51:17
why \\*.zip? i am unable to test it, sorry
Andrey
2010-03-03 20:52:04
The shell expands the wildcard to `unzip foo.zip bar.zip` which isn't correct as unzip expects a list of files from the archive after the first argument. Adding a `\` avoids this wildcard expansion. Unzip than handles expansion internally. So actually, @Chad was right with "unzip supports wildcards" but wrong with "no need for anything fancy" ;)
sfussenegger
2010-03-03 20:56:22
should have been: Adding a '\'
sfussenegger
2010-03-03 21:01:03
thanks for great explanation, this is much better then silent minuses! i thought unzip can have multiples targets, like unzip foo.zip bar.zip.
Andrey
2010-03-03 21:06:02
it wasn't a silent minus, I gave a comment with the correct invocation
fuzzy lollipop
2010-03-03 22:06:00
+1
A:
unzip *.zip, or if they are in subfolders, then something like
find . -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} \;
phatmanace
2010-03-03 20:46:17
unzip does wildcard processing so a file called "*.zip" won't do what you expect.
geocar
2010-03-03 20:52:03