unzip multiple files
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
edited Aug 12 '15 at 8:49
Braiam
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asked Dec 23 '14 at 11:36
rdarda
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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
edited Aug 12 '15 at 8:49
Braiam
51.7k20136220
asked Dec 23 '14 at 11:36
rdarda
97110
2
Could you give an example?
– ztik
Dec 23 '14 at 11:38
Are you looking for a manual or a completely automated solution?
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:48
just a note, normally when you find that kind of torrents it about illegal software/movies, and you'll never actually get to the end of those .rar/.zip files because it's fake.
– Jeggy
Dec 23 '14 at 13:51
add a comment |
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
edited Aug 12 '15 at 8:49
Braiam
51.7k20136220
asked Dec 23 '14 at 11:36
rdarda
97110
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
unzip
edited Aug 12 '15 at 8:49
Braiam
51.7k20136220
asked Dec 23 '14 at 11:36
rdarda
97110
edited Aug 12 '15 at 8:49
Braiam
51.7k20136220
asked Dec 23 '14 at 11:36
rdarda
97110
edited Aug 12 '15 at 8:49
Braiam
51.7k20136220
edited Aug 12 '15 at 8:49
Braiam
51.7k20136220
edited Aug 12 '15 at 8:49
Braiam
51.7k20136220
51.7k20136220
asked Dec 23 '14 at 11:36
rdarda
97110
asked Dec 23 '14 at 11:36
rdarda
97110
asked Dec 23 '14 at 11:36
rdarda
97110
97110
2
Could you give an example?
– ztik
Dec 23 '14 at 11:38
Are you looking for a manual or a completely automated solution?
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:48
just a note, normally when you find that kind of torrents it about illegal software/movies, and you'll never actually get to the end of those .rar/.zip files because it's fake.
– Jeggy
Dec 23 '14 at 13:51
add a comment |
2
Could you give an example?
– ztik
Dec 23 '14 at 11:38
Are you looking for a manual or a completely automated solution?
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:48
just a note, normally when you find that kind of torrents it about illegal software/movies, and you'll never actually get to the end of those .rar/.zip files because it's fake.
– Jeggy
Dec 23 '14 at 13:51
2
2
Could you give an example?
– ztik
Dec 23 '14 at 11:38
Could you give an example?
– ztik
Dec 23 '14 at 11:38
Are you looking for a manual or a completely automated solution?
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:48
Are you looking for a manual or a completely automated solution?
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:48
just a note, normally when you find that kind of torrents it about illegal software/movies, and you'll never actually get to the end of those .rar/.zip files because it's fake.
– Jeggy
Dec 23 '14 at 13:51
just a note, normally when you find that kind of torrents it about illegal software/movies, and you'll never actually get to the end of those .rar/.zip files because it's fake.
– Jeggy
Dec 23 '14 at 13:51
add a comment |
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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.
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:45
Mitch♦Mitch
84.1k14173229
According to the manualunzipdoesn't support split archives (see the first paragraph in the section “Bugs”).
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:10
@DavidFoerster just tested it, and it works.
– Mitch♦
Dec 23 '14 at 14:03
Ok, then the manual appears to be wrong. Good catch.
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 14:38
@mitch in my case it doesnt work it sais "error while loading the zip file" but on windows the same directory on the same disk unzips with winrar, maybe you tried to unzip multiple but >separate< zip file simultanously? thats an other thing though.
– papajo
Oct 11 '17 at 0:39
add a comment |
To unzip multiple files using a loop -
for z in *.zip; do unzip "$z"; done
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:51
Rohith MadhavanRohith Madhavan
6,73622041
@DavidFoerster The two methods are essentially the same.*.zipprovides all the possible files ending with a zip extension which the loop unzips one by one. This is also why @Mitch has included single quotes in his answer to make it'*.zip', so that the the shell will not recognize it as a wild card character.
– Rohith Madhavan
Dec 23 '14 at 17:08
This is actually a better method since you can specify a file name list instead of saying "all files in the directory". I.E. you want to extract a specific list of zip files one after the other in order, you could do, "for z in X Y Z T G; do unzip -o "$z.zip"; done" and it would do it in that order. This is the better answer imho.
– John Hamilton
Aug 23 '17 at 8:29
add a comment |
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)
answered Feb 3 '16 at 19:44
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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.
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:45
Mitch♦Mitch
84.1k14173229
According to the manualunzipdoesn't support split archives (see the first paragraph in the section “Bugs”).
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:10
@DavidFoerster just tested it, and it works.
– Mitch♦
Dec 23 '14 at 14:03
Ok, then the manual appears to be wrong. Good catch.
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 14:38
@mitch in my case it doesnt work it sais "error while loading the zip file" but on windows the same directory on the same disk unzips with winrar, maybe you tried to unzip multiple but >separate< zip file simultanously? thats an other thing though.
– papajo
Oct 11 '17 at 0:39
add a comment |
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.
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:45
Mitch♦Mitch
84.1k14173229
According to the manualunzipdoesn't support split archives (see the first paragraph in the section “Bugs”).
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:10
@DavidFoerster just tested it, and it works.
– Mitch♦
Dec 23 '14 at 14:03
Ok, then the manual appears to be wrong. Good catch.
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 14:38
@mitch in my case it doesnt work it sais "error while loading the zip file" but on windows the same directory on the same disk unzips with winrar, maybe you tried to unzip multiple but >separate< zip file simultanously? thats an other thing though.
– papajo
Oct 11 '17 at 0:39
add a comment |
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.
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:45
Mitch♦Mitch
84.1k14173229
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.
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:45
Mitch♦Mitch
84.1k14173229
edited Dec 23 '14 at 14:04
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:45
Mitch♦Mitch
84.1k14173229
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:45
Mitch♦Mitch
84.1k14173229
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:45
Mitch♦Mitch
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84.1k14173229
According to the manualunzipdoesn't support split archives (see the first paragraph in the section “Bugs”).
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:10
@DavidFoerster just tested it, and it works.
– Mitch♦
Dec 23 '14 at 14:03
Ok, then the manual appears to be wrong. Good catch.
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 14:38
@mitch in my case it doesnt work it sais "error while loading the zip file" but on windows the same directory on the same disk unzips with winrar, maybe you tried to unzip multiple but >separate< zip file simultanously? thats an other thing though.
– papajo
Oct 11 '17 at 0:39
add a comment |
According to the manualunzipdoesn't support split archives (see the first paragraph in the section “Bugs”).
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:10
@DavidFoerster just tested it, and it works.
– Mitch♦
Dec 23 '14 at 14:03
Ok, then the manual appears to be wrong. Good catch.
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 14:38
@mitch in my case it doesnt work it sais "error while loading the zip file" but on windows the same directory on the same disk unzips with winrar, maybe you tried to unzip multiple but >separate< zip file simultanously? thats an other thing though.
– papajo
Oct 11 '17 at 0:39
According to the manual
unzip doesn't support split archives (see the first paragraph in the section “Bugs”).– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:10
According to the manual
unzip doesn't support split archives (see the first paragraph in the section “Bugs”).– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:10
@DavidFoerster just tested it, and it works.
– Mitch♦
Dec 23 '14 at 14:03
@DavidFoerster just tested it, and it works.
– Mitch♦
Dec 23 '14 at 14:03
Ok, then the manual appears to be wrong. Good catch.
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 14:38
Ok, then the manual appears to be wrong. Good catch.
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 14:38
@mitch in my case it doesnt work it sais "error while loading the zip file" but on windows the same directory on the same disk unzips with winrar, maybe you tried to unzip multiple but >separate< zip file simultanously? thats an other thing though.
– papajo
Oct 11 '17 at 0:39
@mitch in my case it doesnt work it sais "error while loading the zip file" but on windows the same directory on the same disk unzips with winrar, maybe you tried to unzip multiple but >separate< zip file simultanously? thats an other thing though.
– papajo
Oct 11 '17 at 0:39
add a comment |
To unzip multiple files using a loop -
for z in *.zip; do unzip "$z"; done
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:51
Rohith MadhavanRohith Madhavan
6,73622041
@DavidFoerster The two methods are essentially the same.*.zipprovides all the possible files ending with a zip extension which the loop unzips one by one. This is also why @Mitch has included single quotes in his answer to make it'*.zip', so that the the shell will not recognize it as a wild card character.
– Rohith Madhavan
Dec 23 '14 at 17:08
This is actually a better method since you can specify a file name list instead of saying "all files in the directory". I.E. you want to extract a specific list of zip files one after the other in order, you could do, "for z in X Y Z T G; do unzip -o "$z.zip"; done" and it would do it in that order. This is the better answer imho.
– John Hamilton
Aug 23 '17 at 8:29
add a comment |
To unzip multiple files using a loop -
for z in *.zip; do unzip "$z"; done
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:51
Rohith MadhavanRohith Madhavan
6,73622041
@DavidFoerster The two methods are essentially the same.*.zipprovides all the possible files ending with a zip extension which the loop unzips one by one. This is also why @Mitch has included single quotes in his answer to make it'*.zip', so that the the shell will not recognize it as a wild card character.
– Rohith Madhavan
Dec 23 '14 at 17:08
This is actually a better method since you can specify a file name list instead of saying "all files in the directory". I.E. you want to extract a specific list of zip files one after the other in order, you could do, "for z in X Y Z T G; do unzip -o "$z.zip"; done" and it would do it in that order. This is the better answer imho.
– John Hamilton
Aug 23 '17 at 8:29
add a comment |
To unzip multiple files using a loop -
for z in *.zip; do unzip "$z"; done
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:51
Rohith MadhavanRohith Madhavan
6,73622041
To unzip multiple files using a loop -
for z in *.zip; do unzip "$z"; done
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:51
Rohith MadhavanRohith Madhavan
6,73622041
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:51
Rohith MadhavanRohith Madhavan
6,73622041
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:51
Rohith MadhavanRohith Madhavan
6,73622041
answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:51
Rohith MadhavanRohith Madhavan
6,73622041
6,73622041
@DavidFoerster The two methods are essentially the same.*.zipprovides all the possible files ending with a zip extension which the loop unzips one by one. This is also why @Mitch has included single quotes in his answer to make it'*.zip', so that the the shell will not recognize it as a wild card character.
– Rohith Madhavan
Dec 23 '14 at 17:08
This is actually a better method since you can specify a file name list instead of saying "all files in the directory". I.E. you want to extract a specific list of zip files one after the other in order, you could do, "for z in X Y Z T G; do unzip -o "$z.zip"; done" and it would do it in that order. This is the better answer imho.
– John Hamilton
Aug 23 '17 at 8:29
add a comment |
@DavidFoerster The two methods are essentially the same.*.zipprovides all the possible files ending with a zip extension which the loop unzips one by one. This is also why @Mitch has included single quotes in his answer to make it'*.zip', so that the the shell will not recognize it as a wild card character.
– Rohith Madhavan
Dec 23 '14 at 17:08
This is actually a better method since you can specify a file name list instead of saying "all files in the directory". I.E. you want to extract a specific list of zip files one after the other in order, you could do, "for z in X Y Z T G; do unzip -o "$z.zip"; done" and it would do it in that order. This is the better answer imho.
– John Hamilton
Aug 23 '17 at 8:29
@DavidFoerster The two methods are essentially the same.
*.zip provides all the possible files ending with a zip extension which the loop unzips one by one. This is also why @Mitch has included single quotes in his answer to make it '*.zip', so that the the shell will not recognize it as a wild card character.– Rohith Madhavan
Dec 23 '14 at 17:08
@DavidFoerster The two methods are essentially the same.
*.zip provides all the possible files ending with a zip extension which the loop unzips one by one. This is also why @Mitch has included single quotes in his answer to make it '*.zip', so that the the shell will not recognize it as a wild card character.– Rohith Madhavan
Dec 23 '14 at 17:08
This is actually a better method since you can specify a file name list instead of saying "all files in the directory". I.E. you want to extract a specific list of zip files one after the other in order, you could do, "for z in X Y Z T G; do unzip -o "$z.zip"; done" and it would do it in that order. This is the better answer imho.
– John Hamilton
Aug 23 '17 at 8:29
This is actually a better method since you can specify a file name list instead of saying "all files in the directory". I.E. you want to extract a specific list of zip files one after the other in order, you could do, "for z in X Y Z T G; do unzip -o "$z.zip"; done" and it would do it in that order. This is the better answer imho.
– John Hamilton
Aug 23 '17 at 8:29
add a comment |
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)
answered Feb 3 '16 at 19:44
Mincă Daniel AndreiMincă Daniel Andrei
21318
add a comment |
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)
answered Feb 3 '16 at 19:44
Mincă Daniel AndreiMincă Daniel Andrei
21318
add a comment |
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)
answered Feb 3 '16 at 19:44
Mincă Daniel AndreiMincă Daniel Andrei
21318
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)
answered Feb 3 '16 at 19:44
Mincă Daniel AndreiMincă Daniel Andrei
21318
answered Feb 3 '16 at 19:44
Mincă Daniel AndreiMincă Daniel Andrei
21318
answered Feb 3 '16 at 19:44
Mincă Daniel AndreiMincă Daniel Andrei
21318
answered Feb 3 '16 at 19:44
Mincă Daniel AndreiMincă Daniel Andrei
21318
21318
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Could you give an example?
– ztik
Dec 23 '14 at 11:38
Are you looking for a manual or a completely automated solution?
– David Foerster
Dec 23 '14 at 13:48
just a note, normally when you find that kind of torrents it about illegal software/movies, and you'll never actually get to the end of those .rar/.zip files because it's fake.
– Jeggy
Dec 23 '14 at 13:51