Unzip All Files In A Directory

Question

I have a directory of ZIP files (created on a Windows machine). I can manually unzip them using unzip filename, but how can I unzip all the ZIP files in the current folder via the shell?

Using Ubuntu Linux Server.

Answer 1

This works in bash, according to this link:

unzip \*.zip

Answer 2

Just put in some quotes to escape the wildcard:

unzip "*.zip"

Answer 3

Extracts all zip files in the current directory into new dirs with the filename of the zip file.

ex, the following files:

myfile1.zip
myfile2.zip 

will be extracted to:

./myfile1/files...
./myfile2/files...

Shell script:

#!/bin/sh
for zip in *.zip
do
  dirname=`echo $zip | sed 's/\.zip$//'`
  if mkdir "$dirname"
  then
    if cd "$dirname"
    then
      unzip ../"$zip"
      cd ..
      # rm -f $zip # Uncomment to delete the original zip file
    else
      echo "Could not unpack $zip - cd failed"
    fi
  else
    echo "Could not unpack $zip - mkdir failed"
  fi
done

Answer 4

unzip *.zip, or if they are in subfolders, then something like

find . -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} \;

Answer 5

for i in *.zip; do
  newdir="${i:0:-4}" && mkdir "$newdir"
  unzip "$i" -d  "$newdir"
done

This will unzip all the zip archives into new folders named with the filenames of the zip archives.

a.zip b.zip c.zip will be unzipped into a b c folders respectively.

Answer 6

Unzip all .zip files and store the content in a new folder with the same name and in the same folder as the .zip file:

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

This is an extension of @phatmanace's answer and addresses @RishabhAgrahari's comment:

This will extract all the zip files in current directory, what if I want the zip files (present in subfolders) to be extracted in the respective subfolders ?

Answer 7

aunpack -e *.zip, with atool installed. Has the advantage that it deals intelligently with errors, and always unpacks into subdirectories unless the zip contains only one file . Thus, there is no danger of polluting the current directory with masses of files, as there is with unzip on a zip with no directory structure.

Answer 8

In any POSIX shell, this will unzip into a different directory for each zip file:

for file in *.zip
do
    directory="${file%.zip}"
    unzip "$file" -d "$directory"
done

Answer 9

Use this:

for file in `ls *.Zip`; do
unzip ${file} -d ${unzip_dir_loc}
done

Answer 10

for file in 'ls *.zip'; do unzip "${file}" -d "${file:0:-4}"; done

Answer 11

This is a variant of Pedro Lobito answer using How to loop through a directory recursively to delete files with certain extensions teachings:

shopt -s globstar
root_directory="."

for zip_file_name in **/*.{zip,sublime\-package}; do
    directory_name=`echo $zip_file_name | sed 's/\.\(zip\|sublime\-package\)$//'`
    printf "Unpacking zip file \`$root_directory/$zip_file_name\`...\n"

    if [ -f "$root_directory/$zip_file_name" ]; then
        mkdir -p "$root_directory/$directory_name"
        unzip -o -q "$root_directory/$zip_file_name" -d "$directory_name"

        # Some files have the executable flag and were not being deleted because of it.
        # chmod -x "$root_directory/$zip_file_name"
        # rm -f "$root_directory/$zip_file_name"
    fi
done

Answer 12

If the files are gzip'd. Then just use:

gunzip -rfk .

from the root directory to recursively extract files in respective directories by keeping the original ones (or remove -k to delete them)

Answer 13

To unzip all files in a directory just type this cmd in terminal:

unzip '*.zip'

Answer 14

for i in `ls *.zip`; do unzip $i; done

Answer 15

Use

sudo apt-get install unzip 

unzip file.zip -d path_to_destination_folder

to unzip a folder in linux