Unzip again

[Kerry Hoath]

No Toby; the shell expands the file names.
assume we have foo.zip and bar.zip in the current directory;
unzip *.zip will pass the command line
unzip bar.zip foo.zip
and since unzip can't find foo.zip in bar.zip it failes.
You need to do
unzip \*.zip
or
unzip "*.zip"
or anything else thaat will let the wildcards past the shell.

For an example of shell wildcard expantion try
echo *
in a directory; poor-man's ls.
Regards, Kerry.
On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:50:42PM +0100, Toby Fisher wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 4 3 2 3 1 1) wrote:
> 
> > Hmmmm.  Looks like that happens if you try and say unzip star.  Oh well.
> > I'll do one at a time  then.
> 
> You could always try:
> 
> unzip *.zip
> 
> HTH
> 
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