[lug] Recursive Unzip

[Chip Atkinson]

There's find and xargs.  Something like 
find . -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} \;
or 
find . -name "*.zip" -print0 | xargs -0 unzip 

The print0/-0 is useful if you have spaces in your file names.
Chip

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Matt Thompson wrote:

> This is probably an FAQ, but I can't really find a good answer.  Namely, 
> I have a folder that contains many folders with many .zip'ed files 
> inside each folder (e.g., 15 folders with 30 .zip files in each).
> 
> Now, I know unzip can't travel down the structure and unzip every file 
> in each directory.  But, I wondered if there was some odd Linux utility 
> that someone created that can do this sort of task?
> 
> Or should I use my lazy fingers and write the, admittedly easy, shell 
> script myself?
> 
> Matt
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