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

The following bash script extracts all zip files in the current directory into new dirs with the filename of the zip file, i.e.:

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

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

Use this:

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

Answer 10

If by 'current directory' you mean the directory in which the zip file is, then I would use this command:

find . -name '*.zip' -execdir unzip {} \; 

excerpt from find's man page

-execdir command ;
-execdir command {} +

Like -exec, but the specified command is run from the subdirectory containing the matched file, which is not normally the directory in which you started find. This a much more secure method for invoking commands, as it avoids race conditions during resolution of the paths to the matched files. As with the -exec option, the '+' form of -execdir will build a command line to process more than one matched file, but any given invocation of command will only list files that exist in the same subdirectory. If you use this option, you must ensure that your $PATH environment variable does not reference the current directory; otherwise, an attacker can run any commands they like by leaving an appropriately-named file in a directory in which you will run -execdir.

Answer 11

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

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 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

Answer 16

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

unzip '*.zip'