unzip multiple files

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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?

Mitch · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-23T14:04:06.747

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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.

edited Dec 23 '14 at 14:04

answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:45

Mitch

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:51

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To unzip multiple files using a loop -

for z in *.zip; do unzip "$z"; done

answered Dec 23 '14 at 11:51

Rohith Madhavan

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Gabriel Staples · Answer 3 · 2023-08-16T02:23:31.647

How to unzip multiple files at once

...using parallel operations (one CPU core per process, with as many processes as you have cores), into output directories with the same names as the zip files:

This might look complicated, but it's beautiful and fast. It will unzip all top-level *.zip files in your current directory into folders of the same name as the zip file:

# Install `unar` (un-archive)
sudo apt update
sudo apt install unar
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time find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.zip" -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} -n 1 -P $(nproc) unar -f {}

unar is used instead of unzip because unar automatically puts the extracted output into a folder with the same name as the .zip file.
If you'd like to extract *.zip files in lower levels too, remove the -maxdepth 1 option.

unzip multiple files

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How to unzip multiple files at once

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