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Old 04-24-2008
Script to unzip specific files

As part of an audit at work I need to review a lot of Windows workstations. One thing I need to do is review all of the .doc files. My problem is that I guessed a number of these files would be in zip archives. This is the case but they are mixed in with a lot of other file types that I am not interested in. I want to write a script that will search the file system for .zip archives and and extract ONLY .doc files and copy them to a particular folder. I can get a list of the doc files using zipinfo e.g

Code:
find /windows/C -iname '*.zip' -printf "\n==\n %p \n\n" -exec zipinfo {} \; 2>/result/zip_err.log >/result/zips.txt

I can then grep the file for .doc files, but any idea how I can extract ONLY the .doc files, please?

TIA

Last edited by stumpyuk; 04-24-2008 at 12:52 PM..
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Old 04-24-2008
unzip allows you to name which files you want to extract.

Code:
vnix$ unzip --help
UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Ubuntu. Original by Info-ZIP.

Usage: unzip [-Z] [-opts[modifiers]] file[.zip] [list] [-x xlist] [-d exdir]
  Default action is to extract files in list, except those in xlist, to exdir;
  file[.zip] may be a wildcard.  -Z => ZipInfo mode ("unzip -Z" for usage).

(snipped, emphasis added.)

The directory in a zip file is plain text, so you could simply grep the zip files for occurrences of '\.doc' and assume the vast majority of the hits are genuine.
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