[clue-tech] Script for Unzipping?

[Jeff Schroeder]

Joseph asked:

> Does any such beast exist (or can exist)? I've tried just using
>
> $unzip *.zip
>
> but that always returns:
>
> Archive:  aajaxsurrealfreak.zip
> caution: filename not matched:  aarcover.zip

That's because the shell is expanding "*.zip" before running the unzip 
command.  Thus, the command actually being executed is something like

$ unzip file1.zip file2.zip file3.zip

... and Unzip interprets that as "unzip file1.zip and find file2.zip 
inside the archive".

You want to use something like find:

$ find -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} \;

That'll do a recursive unzip.  To limit to the current directory, use

$ find -name "*.zip" -maxdepth 1 -exec unzip {} \;

HTH,
Jeff
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