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

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 ...