Unzip files in bulk in their own directory (sh)

by Jaspreet Chahal on September 28, 2015 Leave a Comment

Here is a quiz tip to unzip several zip files found in a directory to their own directories.

Use this command from the folder where zip files are to be found

find . -name '*.zip' -exec sh -c 'unzip -d "${1%.*}" "$1"' _ {} \;

1	find . -name '.zip' -exec sh -c 'unzip -d "${1%.}" "$1"' _ {} \;

To make sure that output folders will be created as per required, let’s print unzip commands with an echo using the command below

find -name '*.zip' -exec sh -c 'echo unzip -d "${1%.*}" "$1"' _ {} \;

1	find -name '.zip' -exec sh -c 'echo unzip -d "${1%.}" "$1"' _ {} \;

I hope this helps, if you come across some other way, please share it with others.