How do you recursively unzip archives in a directory and its subdirectories from the Unix command-line

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The unzip command doesn t have an option for recursively unzipping archives   If I have the following directory structure and archives     Mother Loving zip  Scurvy Sea Dogs zip  Scurvy Cures Limes zip   And I want to unzip all of the archives into directories with the same name as each archive     Mother Loving 1 txt  Mother Loving zip  Scurvy Sea Dogs 2 txt  Scurvy Sea Dogs zip  Scurvy Cures Limes 3 txt  Scurvy Cures Limes zip   What command or commands would I issue   It s important that this doesn t choke on filenames that have spaces in them

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Another interesting solution would be   DESTINY  Give the output that you intend     Don t forget to change from  ZIP to  zip    In my case the files were in  ZIP    The echo were for debug purpose   find   -name    ZIP    while read filename  do ADDRESS  filename  echo  Address   ADDRESS  BASENAME  basename  filename  ZIP   echo  Basename   BASENAME  unzip -d   DESTINY BASENAME    ADDRESS   done

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This works perfectly as we want   Unzip files   find   -name    zip    xargs -P 5 -I FILENAME sh -c  unzip -o -d    dirname  FILENAME     FILENAME     Above command does not create duplicate directories   Remove all zip files   find   -depth -name    zip  -exec rm

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Here s one solution that extracts all zip files to the working directory and involves the find command and a while loop   find   -name    zip    while read filename  do unzip -o -d   basename -s  zip   filename      filename   done

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If you re using cygwin  the syntax is slightly different for the basename command   find   -name    zip    while read filename  do unzip -o -d   basename   filename   zip     filename   done

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A solution that correctly handles all file names  including newlines  and extracts into a directory that is at the same location as the file  just with the extension removed  find   -iname    zip  -exec sh -c  unzip -o -d  quot   0     quot   quot  0 quot             Note that you can easily make it handle more file types  such as  jar  by adding them using -o  e g   find       -iname    zip  -o -iname    jar      -exec

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Something like gunzip using the -r flag       Travel the directory structure recursively  If any of the file names specified on the command line are directories  gzip will descend into the directory and compress all the files it finds there  or decompress them in the case of gunzip     http   www computerhope com unix gzip htm

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You could use find along with the -exec flag in a single command line to do the job  find   -name    zip  -exec unzip

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unzip name of the zipfile zip  worked fine for me  after installing the zip package from Info-ZIP  sudo apt install -y zip  The above installation is for Debian Ubuntu Mint  For other Linux distros  see the second reference below  References  http   infozip sourceforge net  https   www tecmint com install-zip-and-unzip-in-linux

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If you want to extract the files to the respective folder you can try this  find   -name    zip    while read filename  do unzip -o -d   dirname   filename      filename   done    A multi-processed version for systems that can handle high I O   find   -name    zip    xargs -P 5 -I fileName sh -c  unzip -o -d    dirname  fileName     basename -s  zip  fileName     fileName

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I realise this is very old  but it was among the first hits on Google when I was looking for a solution to something similar  so I ll post what I did here  My scenario is slightly different as I basically just wanted to fully explode a jar  along with all jars contained within it  so I wrote the following bash functions   function explode       local target   1      echo  Exploding  target       if   -f   target      then         explodeFile   target      elif   -d   target      then         while      find   target  -type f -regextype posix-egrep -iregex       zip jar ear war sar               do             find   target  -type f -regextype posix-egrep -iregex       zip jar ear war sar   -exec bash -c  source   lt file-where-this-function-is-stored gt     explode                  done     else         echo  Could not find  target       fi    function explodeFile       local target   1      echo  Exploding file  target       mv   target    target tmp      unzip -q   target tmp  -d   target      rm   target tmp      Note the  lt file-where-this-function-is-stored gt  which is needed if you re storing this in a file that is not read for a non-interactive shell as I happened to be  If you re storing the functions in a file loaded on non-interactive shells  e g    bashrc I believe  you can drop the whole source statement  Hopefully this will help someone   A little warning - explodeFile also deletes the ziped file  you can of course change that by commenting out the last line

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