Unzip a bunch of zips into their own directories

Question

I have a bunch of zip files I want to unzip in Linux into their own directory. For example:

a1.zip a2.zip b1.zip b2.zip

would be unzipped into:

a1 a2 b1 b2

respectively. Is there any easy way to do this?

Latonya

This belongs on superuser or serverfault – Beneficent

Answer 1

Add quotes to handle spaces in filename.

for file in *.zip
do
  unzip -d "${file%.zip}" "$file"
done

Araucania

This doesn't work on filenames with spaces. Jefromi's answer does. – Gunderson

Answer 2

for zipfile in *.zip; do
    exdir="${zipfile%.zip}"
    mkdir "$exdir"
    unzip -d "$exdir" "$zipfile"
done

Blowbyblow

Answer 3

for x in $(ls *.zip); do
 dir=${x%%.zip}
 mkdir $dir
 unzip -d $dir $x
done

Storage

You just barely beat me, but enough differences I posted anyway - you don't need to use ls (the globbing will expand just fine on its own), you don't need %% (it deletes the longest match, and there's only one possible match, picky, I know), and it's always good to quote your filenames! – Blowbyblow

Answer 4

Sorry for contributing to an old post, this works in cmd line for me and it was a life saver when I learnt about it

for file in $(ls *.zip); do unzip $file -d $(echo $file | cut -d . -f 1); done

Hey presto!

Goner

Did not confirm this works but a oneliner is convenient for me. – Chios