Create a dedicated folder for every zip files in a directory and extract zip files

creativeDev picture creativeDev · Nov 12, 2011 · Viewed 67.6k times · Source

If I choose a zip file and right click "extract here" a folder with the zip filename is created and the entire content of the zip file is extracted into it.

However, I would like to convert several zip files via shell. But when I do

unzip filename.zip

the folder "filename" is not created but all the files are extracted into the current directory.

I have looked at the parameters but there is no such parameter. I also tried

for zipfile in \*.zip; do mkdir $zipfile; unzip $zipfile -d $zipfile/; done

but the .zip extension of the 2. $zipfile and 4. $zipfile have to be removed with sed. If I do

for zipfile in \*.zip; do mkdir sed 's/\.zip//i' $zipfile; unzip $zipfile -d sed 's/\.zip//i' $zipfile/; done 

it is not working.

How do I replace the .zip extension of $zipfile properly?

Is there an easier way than a shell script?

Answer

Kent picture Kent · Nov 12, 2011

unzip file.zip -d xxx will extract files to directory xxx, and xxx will be created if it is not there. You can check the man page for details.

The awk line below should do the job:

ls *.zip|awk -F'.zip' '{print "unzip "$0" -d "$1}'|sh

See the test below,

note that I removed |sh at the end, since my zips are fake archives; I just want to show the generated command line here.

kent$  ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 kent kent 0 Nov 12 23:10 001.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 kent kent 0 Nov 12 23:10 002.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 kent kent 0 Nov 12 23:10 003.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 kent kent 0 Nov 12 23:10 004.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 kent kent 0 Nov 12 23:10 005.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 kent kent 0 Nov 12 23:10 006.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 kent kent 0 Nov 12 23:10 007.zip

kent$  ls *.zip|awk -F'.zip' '{print "unzip "$0" -d "$1}'
unzip 001.zip -d 001
unzip 002.zip -d 002
unzip 003.zip -d 003
unzip 004.zip -d 004
unzip 005.zip -d 005
unzip 006.zip -d 006
unzip 007.zip -d 007