How do you recursively unzip archives in a directory and its subdirectories from the Unix command-line?

Question

The unzip command doesn\'t have an option for recursively unzipping archives.

If I have the following directory structure and archives:

/Moth         


        

Answer 1

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"'