[clue-tech] Script for Unzipping?
    David Anselmi 
    anselmi at anselmi.us
       
    Sat Apr 30 11:01:32 MDT 2005
    
    
  
Jeff Schroeder wrote:
[...]
> 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
Boy, I'd call that a bug.  Shouldn't a command, given multiple file name 
arguments, just process each file?  That's what you'd get from cat, 
less, grep, etc.
I'd think that if you wanted just some files from the archive, a switch 
for that behavior would be a better design.
Dave
    
    
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