unzip command options
 

using unzip... how can you unzip multiple zip files to one directory at the command line.
I have done this before but cannot remember for the life of me how I did it.
Ideas??? I know it must be an option....

??? I have no idea what you are trying to say...
I have read the man pages... but found nothing.
I tried something and it worked...
if there is 20 zip files in a directory and you want to unzip all of them to ...
/usr/share/sword let say. Then here is what I found to work....
unzip \* -d thedirectorywherethefilesaregoing
that will unzip everything...

I hope this will help someone later!

Generally, you have to escape (use the backslash in front of) the asterisk for a lot of commands that deal with files - find for example.

This can be confusing because the ls, ll... etc family doesn't require the escape character.

this is true...
I wonder what the meaning of the escape is... why do you have to escape?