Unpacking multiple ZIP files (regular expressions)
 

Hi all,

I have a question. Say I want to unpack multiple ZIP files. I'd use "unzip *.zip" but it appears that I need to use "unzip /*.zip" instead (without the quotes, of course). Why is that? It seems that I misunderstood how Linux interprets the asterisk.

No, you haven't misunderstood how linux interprets the asterisk, but how the 'unzip' program interprets it :)

I'll poke around a bit but there are several other threads like this if you search for 'multiple unzip' 'unzip all in directory' or somesuch.