Unzip a bunch of zips into their own directories

Question

I have a bunch of zip files I want to unzip in Linux into their own directory. For example:

a1.zip a2.zip b1.zip b2.zip

would be unzipped into:

a1 a2 b1 b2

respectively. Is there any easy way to do this?

This belongs on superuser or serverfault – Ben Everard Mar 17 '10 at 16:11 — Ben Everard, Mar 17 '10 at 16:11

score 14 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 20 '21 at 15:09

14

Add quotes to handle spaces in filename.

for file in *.zip
do
  unzip -d "${file%.zip}" "$file"
done

edited Jan 20 '21 at 15:09

Dave

answered Mar 17 '10 at 16:43

ghostdog74

4

This doesn't work on filenames with spaces. Jefromi's answer does. – Sam Finnigan Mar 18 '14 at 10:44

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 17 '10 at 16:19

12

for zipfile in *.zip; do
    exdir="${zipfile%.zip}"
    mkdir "$exdir"
    unzip -d "$exdir" "$zipfile"
done

answered Mar 17 '10 at 16:19

Cascabel

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 17 '10 at 16:17

1

for x in $(ls *.zip); do
 dir=${x%%.zip}
 mkdir $dir
 unzip -d $dir $x
done

answered Mar 17 '10 at 16:17

Steve B.

You just barely beat me, but enough differences I posted anyway - you don't need to use ls (the globbing will expand just fine on its own), you don't need `%%` (it deletes the longest match, and there's only one possible match, picky, I know), and it's always good to quote your filenames! – Cascabel Mar 17 '10 at 16:21

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 08 '19 at 19:45

1

Sorry for contributing to an old post, this works in cmd line for me and it was a life saver when I learnt about it

for file in $(ls *.zip); do unzip $file -d $(echo $file | cut -d . -f 1); done

Hey presto!

edited Jul 08 '19 at 19:45

jhscheer

answered Nov 09 '16 at 20:57

SJK

Did not confirm this works but a oneliner is convenient for me. – savolai ᯓ Sep 03 '22 at 11:17

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