How do you recursively unzip archives in a directory and its subdirectories from the Unix command-line?
If you want to extract the files to the respective folder you can try this
find . -name "*.zip" | while read filename; do unzip -o -d "`dirname "$filename"`" "$filename"; done;
A multi-processed version for systems that can handle high I/O:
find . -name "*.zip" | xargs -P 5 -I fileName sh -c 'unzip -o -d "$(dirname "fileName")/$(basename -s .zip "fileName")" "fileName"'
Here's one solution that extracts all zip files to the working directory and involves the find command and a while loop:
find . -name "*.zip" | while read filename; do unzip -o -d "`basename -s .zip "$filename"`" "$filename"; done;
A solution that correctly handles all file names (including newlines) and extracts into a directory that is at the same location as the file, just with the extension removed:
find . -iname '*.zip' -exec sh -c 'unzip -o -d "${0%.*}" "$0"' '{}' ';'
Note that you can easily make it handle more file types (such as .jar
) by adding them using -o
, e.g.:
find . '(' -iname '*.zip' -o -iname '*.jar' ')' -exec ...