I'm reposting the core of an excellent article by Vivek Gte on using wildcards with the unzip command on Unix: -
This is in specific response to an issue that one of my colleagues had earlier today, whilst trying to expand multiple WebSphere Application Server 8.5 installation packages on Linux: -
Q. I've lots of files in a directory called /disk2/images. All files are zip file format , so I am using following command:
unzip *.zip
Which is result into an error as follows:
caution: filename not matched
How do I unzip multiple / many files under Linux?
unzip *.zip
Which is result into an error as follows:
caution: filename not matched
How do I unzip multiple / many files under Linux?
Option # 1 : unzip multiple files using single quote (short version)
Type the command as follows:
Type the command as follows:
$ unzip '*.zip'
Note that *.zip word is put in between two single quote, so that shell will not recognize it as a wild card character.
Option # 2 : unzip multiple files using shell for loop (long version)
You can also use for loop as follows:
$ for z in *.zip; do unzip $z; done
1 comment:
Note that, on my Mac, the important key is the single quote key ( ' ) - located on the right-hand side of my UK keyboard, shifted down from the double quote key ( " ).
The WRONG key is the other quote-like key ( ` ) which is on the left-hand side of my keyboard, shifted down from the circumflex ( ~ ).
Make sense ?
Use this -> '
Not this -> `
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