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're using cygwin, the syntax is slightly different for the basename command.

find . -name "*.zip" | while read filename; do unzip -o -d "`basename "$filename" .zip`" "$filename"; done;