Unzip again

[Mitchell Smith]

Something like 

ls -1 *.zip | awk '{print "unzip "$1}' | bash

would work

or you could 

ls -1 | awk '{print "unzip "$1}' > unzipscript

and then 

sh unzipscript

Hope this helps.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Toby Fisher" <toby_fisher at bigfoot.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: Unzip again


> On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Arg, forgot that, sorry.  Will command substitution work?  Like:
> unzip `ls -l *.zip`
> or pipes
> ls |grep zip |unzip
> or even:
> ls *.zip | unzip
> 
> > For an example of shell wildcard expantion try
> > echo *
> > in a directory; poor-man's ls.
> 
> Haha yes, very poor, it doesn't even wrap gracefully!
> 
> Cheers.
> 
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