Unzip all files into directories with the same name

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Ubuntu 16.04

I have a directory with zip files like this:

directory | |---zip1.zip |---zip2.zip | ... |---zip_very_large_number.zip

Now, I have another directory /home/usrname/anotherdir. Is there a way to unzip all the files into the /home/usrname/anotherdir in the following way:

/home/usrname/anotherdir |---zip1(directory) | |---_FILES_FROM_zip1.zip | |---zip2(directory) | |---_FILES_FROM_zip2.zip | |---zip3(directory) | |---_FILES_FROM_zip3.zip | ... | |---zip_very_large_number(directory) |---_FILES_FROM_zip_very_large_number.zip

Is there a concise way to do this with unzip? I could write a shell-script but it doesn't look pretty well...

Jeff Schaller · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-07 17:56:58Z

There is not a short way to do this with unzip, since it only accepts one zipfile for decompression at a time. Consider some sort of shell loop like:

for d in *.zip do dir=/home/usrname/anotherdir/zip${d%%.zip} unzip -d "$dir" "$d" done

dylanmorroll · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-02 16:32:43Z

Here is a one liner that works for any zips in the current directory

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

You can add it to your .bashrc

alias unzip_all='for z in *.zip; do unzip "$z" -d "${z%".zip"}"; done'

Inspiration taken from:

Method #2: Unzipping Multiple Files from Linux Command Line Using Shell For Loop (Long Version) in https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-shell-unzipping-many-zip-files/

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