Recursively unzip files and then delete original file, leaving unzipped files in place from shell

bash unzip rm
Ben picture Ben · Apr 8, 2011 · Viewed 24k times · Source

I've so far figured out how to use find to recursively unzip all the files:

find . -depth -name `*.zip` -exec /usr/bin/unzip -n {} \;

But, I can't figure out how to remove the zip files one at a time after the extraction. Adding rm *.zip in an -a -exec ends up deleting most of the zip files in each directory before they are extracted. Piping through a script containing the rm command (with -i enabled for testing) causes find to not find any *.zips (or at least that's what it complains). There is, of course, whitespace in many of the filenames but at this point syntaxing in a sed command to add _'s is a bit beyond me. Thank for your help!

Answer

ggiroux picture ggiroux · Apr 8, 2011

have you tried:

find . -depth -name '*.zip' -exec /usr/bin/unzip -n {} \; -exec rm {} \;

or 

find . -depth -name '*.zip' -exec /usr/bin/unzip -n {} \; -delete

or running a second find after the unzip one

find . -depth -name '*.zip' -exec rm {} \;

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