Sometimes you want to extract files from all zip archives in subfolders.
Useful when additional per-file logic is required: unzip all files in subfolders linux
For a reusable solution, you can add this function to your ~/.bashrc file. This enables a quick alias like ez (extract zips) to handle the recursion for you. Sometimes you want to extract files from all
$ find . -name "*.zip" -exec sh -c 'unzip -o "$0" -d "$0%/*"' {} \; Archive: ./data1/images.zip inflating: ./data1/photo1.jpg inflating: ./data1/photo2.jpg $ find
If you prefer a more readable approach or want to include the command in a bash script, a for loop combined with globstar is an excellent choice.
After running the command: ./project/ ├── images/ │ ├── archive1.zip │ ├── photo.jpg (extracted) │ ├── archive2.zip │ └── [extracted contents] └── docs/ ├── reports.zip └── [extracted contents]