[clue-tech] Script for Unzipping?

[Kiawud]

On 4/30/05, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. <jnagyjr at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote:
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> I really am sorry for the x-posting, but I am hoping for an answer asap.
> Follow-up set to me, I'll post the solution I use to both lists in an
> x-posted reply.
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> I'm looking for a script that will take "*.zip" and unzip all files matching
> that expression in the current (or specified) directory (as in the case of
> ~/*/.zip which would go into all directories one level below /home/jnagyjr
> and unzip all archives matching *.zip).
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> Does any such beast exist (or can exist)? I've tried just using
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> $unzip *.zip
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> but that always returns:
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> Archive:  aajaxsurrealfreak.zip
> caution: filename not matched:  aarcover.zip
> ....

Have you tried something like:

find ./ -name \*zip -exec unzip {} \;  (to recursively unzip all files
in a hierarchy)
or
for i in `ls *zip`; do unzip "$i"; done (to just unzip what's in the
current directory)

-Hani