Unzip All Files In A Directory

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Lennie De Villiers picture Lennie De Villiers · Mar 3, 2010 · Viewed 211k times · Source

I have a directory of ZIP files (created on a Windows machine). I can manually unzip them using unzip filename, but how can I unzip all the ZIP files in the current folder via the shell?

Using Ubuntu Linux Server.

Answer

ChristopheD picture ChristopheD · Mar 3, 2010

This works in bash, according to this link:

unzip \*.zip

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