How to Unzip Multiple Files with Command Line
It's a bit tricky to unzip multiple files with command line
Recently I’ve download a lot of zip files from the internet to my Raspberry Pi.
After all download progress finished, I see the files and try to unzip them all.
My first reflect is to type unzip *.zip just like any other standard unix command (rm, cp, etc.).
But, to my surprise, it doesn’t work at all.
Take a look at the following snippet. This is an example output I get when I try to unzip multiple zip files with the wrong command.
$ unzip *.zip
Archive: file-01.zip
caution: filename not matched: file-02.zip
caution: filename not matched: file-03.zipSo, how to solve this problem?
It’s actually pretty simple, just wrap the *.zip with apostrophe (’) like the following snippet.
unzip '*.zip'Since now the command is written correctly, here is the expected output.
$ unzip '*.zip'
Archive: file-01.zip
inflating: file-01.iso
Archive: file-02.zip
inflating: file-02.iso
Archive: file-03.zip
inflating: file-03.iso
3 archives were successfully processed.It’s a success!
I also made a video to visualize what I wrote here.
Thank you for reading, see you on my next tutorial.
