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Asked: 2014-12-24 03:36:50 +0800 CST

unzip multiple files

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I don't think that I'm the only one with this problem, but unfortunately I wasn't able to find the proper answer between previously asked questions.

It is a very common procedure on torrent sites where the content is split in many small archives. Sometimes, those small indexed zip archives are containing another rar archives inside.

So, my question is: how to you handle this problem? How to you recursively unpack those files?

unzip

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  1. Best Answer

    To do so, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

    unzip '*.zip'

    Also you can right click on the first file in the group, and choose Extract here, and that will also all the files in that group.

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  2. To unzip multiple files using a loop - 

    for z in *.zip; do unzip "$z"; done
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  3. CTRL+ALT+T to open up a terminal

    for f in $(ls | egrep zip); do
  unzip $f -vd UnzippedDirectory
done

    This basically loops through all the zips you got in your current directory, and unzips each of them verbose (hence the -v flag) into a directory (-d flag)

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