How to unzip multiple files at once in Linux?

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....

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.

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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.

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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?

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

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

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

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ls *.zip | xargs -n1 unzip

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

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

Using single quote:

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$ unzip ‘*.zip’

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

Using shell for loop :

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

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