cd /path/to/parent/directory First, he wanted to see the structure of the directory and understand how many subfolders and zip files he was dealing with.
However, instead of running unzip directly, John decided to use find to locate all the zip files first. This approach would give him more control and ensure that he only attempted to unzip files that were actually zip files. unzip all files in subfolders linux
tree The output showed a complex directory structure with many subfolders, each containing multiple zip files. cd /path/to/parent/directory First, he wanted to see the
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. tree The output showed a complex directory structure
Alex was thrilled to see the unzipped files and thanked John for his help. From that day on, John was known as the "unzip master" among his colleagues.
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:
