[SOLVED] remove readme files from a large group of *.zip files with a command line function

thealmightyos · 08-14-2014, 05:00 PM

I KNOW this can be done but I can not figure it out right now. My brain just will not do as it is told

Here is the situation. I am currently playing a game called Kerbal Space Program (Runs naively in Linux! Check it out!). Very fun and has a lot of user created mods that can be installed. And I have done just that. I have 60~ mods installed.

However, some of these mods are complex and going back to the readme is a good option. I would like copy all the readme* files from the zip files into a folder. I am fairly certain I can do this with a combination of find and tar but I have not figured it out yet. Any suggestions?

thealmightyos · 08-14-2014, 05:24 PM

I figured it out: unzip '*.zip' *readme* *README* *ReadMe* *Readme*

it was that easy. I suppose I could use the -d option to put them where I want them but until I figure out why I don't have write access on this share FOR ROOT testing that sort of stuff will have to wait.

Hope this helps someone.