How to unzip into specific directory without recreate all the path with bash script

bash command-line unzip
Synny picture Synny · Oct 6, 2014 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

In my ios application, I need to unzip an archive that is placed into /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/xxx into, for example, /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/tmp.

My issue is that when I launch this:

unzip /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/xxx/archive.zip -d /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/tmp/

in the tmp folder, there is all the archive path: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/tmp/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/xxx/archive/...

How could I do for only have /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/tmp/archive/... and not all the archive path into the target directory ?

Thanks in advance

Answer

John Zwinck picture John Zwinck · Oct 6, 2014

Try the -j option to unzip which flattens the directory structure and writes all the files into the current directory.

Related questions

How do I set a variable to the output of a command in Bash?

I have a pretty simple script that is something like the following: #!/bin/bash VAR1="$1" MOREF='sudo run command against $VAR1 | grep name | cut -c7-' echo $MOREF When I run this script from the command line and pass it …

Read More
How do I parse command line arguments in Bash?

Say, I have a script that gets called with this line: ./myscript -vfd ./foo/bar/someFile -o /fizz/someOtherFile or this one: ./myscript -v -f -d -o /fizz/someOtherFile ./foo/bar/someFile What's the accepted way of parsing this such …

Read More
How to count lines in a document?

I have lines like these, and I want to know how many lines I actually have... 09:16:39 AM all 2.00 0.00 4.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 94.00 09:16:40 AM all 5.00 0.00 0.00 4.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 91.00 09:16:41 AM all 0.00 0.00 4.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 96.00 09:16:42 AM all 3.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 96.00 09:16:43 AM all 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.00 09:16:44 AM all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 09:16:45 AM all 2.00 0.00 6.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 92.00 Is there a way to count them all using linux …

Read More