[mdlug] unzip file in multiple disk files

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Sat Jul 22 00:51:28 EDT 2023


>On 7/21/23 06:39 PM, Gib wrote:
>> How do I unzip files that are in separate files?
>>
>> disk1.zip
>> disk2.zip
>> disk3.zip
>>

>> This is some kind ot multiple file disk group.Carl T. Miller said on
>> Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:42:03 -0400

>I would try unzipping them all.  What is the output
>of this command?
>
>for x in disk?.zip; do unzip -l $x; done

Not knowing exactly what each zip file represents, I'd advise against
the preceding command and unzip each zip file into a different
directory, to prevent files from overwriting each other.

SteveT

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