John, being the efficient administrator he was, decided to use the Linux command line to tackle this task. He navigated to the parent directory containing all the subfolders and zip files.
Subject: Unzipping success!
John knew that he could use the unzip command to unzip files, but he needed to find a way to do it recursively for all subfolders. He remembered the -r option, which allows unzip to recurse into subdirectories. unzip all files in subfolders linux
find . -type f -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} -d {}_unzip \; This command used find to locate all zip files, and for each file found, it executed unzip with the -d option to unzip the file into a new subfolder named after the original zip file, with _unzip appended to it.
John ran the command, and it worked like magic! All zip files in the subfolders were unzipped into their respective directories. He verified the results and sent a triumphant email to Alex: John, being the efficient administrator he was, decided
find . -type f -name "*.zip" This command found all files with the .zip extension in the current directory and its subdirectories. John then piped the output to xargs , which would execute unzip for each file found:
Best regards, John
I hope this email finds you well. I've successfully unzipped all files in the subfolders. The command I used was: