unzip then chmod in one command

I suggest you to use tar+gzip (tar -cfz/-xzf) instead of zip. This will store/restore file/directory permissions.

The zip file is not provided by me....I have no control over it

Thanks

I see only way:
unzip bla-bla-bla; chod 777 bla-bla-bla

How does that work ? How are you piping the files to chmod ?

hi,
Try this.
unzip file.zip; chmod -R 777

Or in a shell script... myunzip.sh

# ---------------------------------------------------
#Script to unzip and change permissions
#Variables
MYFILE=$1

#go to file location
cd /some/path/where/zip/file/is

#unzip
unzip MYFILE

#changing permissions
chmod -R 777 *

#End Script
#----------------------------------------


To run type this
myunzip.sh myfile


-- hope helps --

unzip prints out the names of the files it is extracting, as below:

$ unzip bigfile.zip 
Archive:  bigfile.zip
   creating: dir1/
   creating: dir2/
 extracting: dir1/f1                 
 extracting: dir1/f2                 
 extracting: dir2/f4                 
 extracting: dir2/f3                 
$

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You can read those names and, with a bit of text processing, pick out the names from the above output text and chmod them as they are extracted.  The command below captures that output as unzip runs, and for any lines where the first word ends "ing:", it runs chmod on the file.

unzip bigfile.zip | awk '/ing:/{print $2}' | xargs chmod 777

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As with many commands like this, filenames with special characters (including spaces) will break processing.

If your files might contain spaces, you need a more complex:

unzip bigfile.zip | awk '/ing:/{gsub("^.*ing: ","");gsub(" *$","");printf "%s%c",$0,0}' | xargs -0 chmod 777

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