[clue-tech] Script for Unzipping?

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Sat Apr 30 13:49:31 MDT 2005



David Anselmi wrote:

> 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. 


The man page says that file names following the .zip file indicate 
"archive  members to be processed"



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