How to unzip multiple files at once in Linux?

[Waffle]

Hi, I want to unzip multiple files at once in Linux from console ? I know its kind of very basic question but i don't know how to do it. So please give me some hint on it. I have a Ubuntu Linux flavor. Thank you....

[linux.]

I don't remember clearly but there is command like unzip *.zip to extract multiple zip files at once, use it and see what happens.

[Waffle]

Originally Posted by linux.

I don't remember clearly but there is command like unzip *.zip to extract multiple zip files at once, use it and see what happens.

Thanks for your quick reply, this was my first guess but its gives me some error saying "caution: filename not matched" . Any more ideas how i can be done?

[Lillebror]

Unzip doesn't allow many filenames as input. However there are more ways to achive it, try following:

for file in `dir *.zip` do 
unzip $file
done

If above command doesn't works then try te following:

ls *.zip | xargs -n1 unzip

After the unzip command make sure you keep the space at the end of the line.

[shahid khan]

Unzip allows the multiple filenames using single quote and by using shell for loop .

Using single quote:

$ unzip ‘*.zip’

Note that *.zip should be in between single quotes, so it won't be consider as a wild card character.

Using shell for loop :

$ for z in *.zip; do unzip $z; done