[clue-tech] Re: LUNA: Script for Unzipping?

[Jef Barnhart]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:14:20 -0600
David Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:

> Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:
> [...]
> > for i in `ls *zip`; do unzip "$i"; done
> 
> Gads no!  It's:
> 
> for i in *zip; do unzip "$i"; done
> 
> And realize that if *zip expands to a command line that's too long
> this  will fail.  (I tried to blow up bash on Linux recently and
> couldn't  (though I did run out of memory) but with ksh on Solaris 8
> this is easy  to do.)
> 
> > That does the job admirably, now I just need to smack the heck out
> > of the unzip program (or the archive creators) for asking me,
> > repeatedly, if I want to overwrite txt files (I do) or rename ttf
> > files (I do). Hehe. :p
> 
> How about -o?  (You do have the man page, don't you?)  And in case you
> 
> don't want to overwrite fonts you can use -d to put stuff in an out of
> 
> the way directory.
> 
> Dave

Taking this on step futher.

I would use while instead of for. What if you have a file such as this,
"dos zipped files.zip"? for will choke on the spaces and fail.

files=`ls *.zip`
while ${files}; do
 unzip ${f}
done

jef