unzip

thanko · 04-24-2003, 09:24 PM

I have a folder /home/tim/downloads/BibleTime that contains about 280 .zip files. I would like to use unzip (or another unzipping utility) to extract all these files to /usr/share/sword but can't seem to get the right syntax.

I've tried

unzip /home/tim/downloads/BibleTime/* -d /usr/share/sword

and a few variations on that same theme, but ge this error message:

caution: filename not matched: /home/tim/downloads/BibleTime/xxx.zip

for each .zip file.

Any ideas?

wr3ck3d · 04-25-2003, 12:26 AM

just go into the folder and run unzip *.zip

that should work i think???

jayakrishnan · 04-25-2003, 12:50 AM

try unziping each file induvidually

thanko · 04-25-2003, 07:02 AM

I can unzip each one individually but there are over 200 of them. That's why I was hoping there was a more efficient way.

unzip * yields the same results as before.

acid_kewpie · 04-25-2003, 07:07 AM

Code:

for i in *.zip 
do
  unzip $i
done

thanko · 04-25-2003, 07:09 AM

I assume that needs to go in a script, right?

jharris · 04-25-2003, 07:10 AM

How about a little shell script?

Code:

#!/bin/sh

for file in *.zip; do
  unzip $file
done

HTH

Jamie...

jharris · 04-25-2003, 07:12 AM

Kewpie beats me to it by 3 mins!

Jamie...

acid_kewpie · 04-25-2003, 07:15 AM

/me is too hot to handle....

jharris · 04-25-2003, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by acid_kewpie
acid_kewpie is too hot to handle....

Yet modest

thanko · 04-25-2003, 04:23 PM

However, acidkewpie, although his way may have worked, did not have the easiest solution.

unzip "*.zip" -d /usr/share/sword

The quote make sure that unzip processes *.zip rather than the shell.

acid_kewpie · 04-25-2003, 04:25 PM

that worked? technically that would've been the wrong way to use it, as it would expand to

unzip "a.zip b.zip c.zip" -blah

which is strange really... but if it works... i was just guessing that unzip couldn't handle multiple files.. ou never said there were spaces in there did you...!

debdas · 05-02-2003, 05:13 AM

how abt doing recursive unzip...like i have a file that has a folder that conatins a number of zipped files. can i unzip all of them in one go
??

jharris · 05-02-2003, 05:16 AM

Not that I know of, as at the time you invoke unzip only a single file will exist. You'll just need to run unzip twice.

cheers

Jamie...