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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Unzip the Files Post 302709009 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 2nd of October 2012 01:47:04 PM
Old 10-02-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by eskay
I am really dummy at unix so I really go with single line commands. I use this commands in the IBM ETL tool.

I do not know how to use
Code:
for i in *.zip
do      if unzip $i
        then rm $i
        fi
done

is i the file name?
like

for filename in filepath ? I have to define the variables right?
I generally prefer "readable" to "fits on one line", but if you want a single line UNIX command, here it is:
Code:
for i in *.zip;do if unzip $i;then rm $i;fi;done

Type this command into your shell (assuming that you use a POSIX compatible shell such as ksh, or bash) in the directory (AKA folder) where you have placed the zip files. The shell will execute a loop of commands once for each zip file in that directory setting the shell variable i to the pathname of one of your zip files. In the loop it will use the unzip utility to extract all of the files in that zip file, and then, if and only if it successfully extracts all of the files in the zip file, it will then remove the zip file.

Hope this helps,
Don
 

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zipsplit

zipnote(1)						      General Commands Manual							zipnote(1)

NAME

       zipsplit - split a zipfile into smaller zipfiles

SYNOPSIS

       zipsplit [-t] [-i] [-p] [-s] [-n size] [-r room] [-b path] [-h] [-q] [-v] [-L] zipfile

ARGUMENTS

       zipfile	Zipfile to split.

OPTIONS

       -t     Report how many files it will take, but don't make them.

       -i     Make index (zipsplit.idx) and count its size against first zip file.

       -n size
	      Make zip files no larger than "size" (default = 36000).

       -r room
	      Leave room for "room" bytes on the first disk (default = 0).

       -b path
	      Use path for the output zip files.

       -p     Pause between output zip files.

       -s     Do a sequential split even if it takes more zip files.

       -h     Show a short help.

       -q     Suppress some informational messages.

       -v     Show version information.

       -L     Show software license.

DESCRIPTION

       zipsplit reads a zipfile and splits it into smaller zipfiles.

EXAMPLES

       To be filled in.

BUGS

       Does not yet support large (> 2 GB) or split archives.

SEE ALSO

       zip(1), unzip(1)

AUTHOR

       Info-ZIP

								v3.0 of 8 May 2008							zipnote(1)
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