Unix commands to unzip a bunch of zip files scattered in folders (and other requirements)?

This should do it....

for i in $( find  /base_folder ! -path '*/extracted*' -a -name '*.zip'   -print ) ; do
   out=$( dirname $i | sed 's/base_name/base_name\/extracted/' ) 
   [ -d $out ] || mkdir $out
   (cd $o ; unzip $i '*' -x '*.txt' *.xls'
done 

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You may need more -x options. of you want to forbid more files.

Hi noci. Thank you for your quick reply.

I added what you said in a script file and cleaned it up a little because it looked like it had some syntax errors.

for i in $( find base_folder ! -path '*/extracted*' -a -name '*.zip'   -print ) ; do
   out=$( dirname $i | sed 's/base_name/base_name\/extracted/' )
   [ -d $out ] || sudo mkdir -p $out
   (cd $o ; sudo unzip $i '*' -x '*.txt' '*.xls')
done

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And it looks like it almost works, but I get one error like the one below for all the zip files.

unzip:  cannot find or open base_folder/batch_1/batch_1_1.zip, base_folder/batch_1/batch_1_1.zip.zip or base_folder/batch_1/batch_1_1.zip.ZIP.

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Do you know how I can fix that?

That requires a absolute path in the find command.....

so find /where/ever/is/the/base_folder  ...
in stead of find base_folder...
or:

for i in $( find $PWD/base_folder ! -path '*/extracted*' -a -name '*.zip'   -print ) ; do
   out=$( dirname $i | sed 's/base_name/base_name\/extracted/' )
   [ -d $out ] || sudo mkdir -p $out
   (cd $o ; sudo unzip $i '*' -x '*.txt' '*.xls')
done

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Ok almost there. So it was able to extract everything, but I don't know where it extracted to.... It seems like it extracted it somewhere and extracted all the contents into the same folder. I know this because to test this, I put copies of the same zip file in the nested folders and was prompted to replace all the files.

Do you know whats going on?

Bummer...     there is a typo $o used as output..., in stead of $out...

This should show the location:....

for i in $( find $PWD/base_folder ! -path '*/extracted*' -a -name '*.zip'   -print ) ; do
   out=$( dirname $i | sed 's/base_name/base_name\/extracted/' )
   [ -d $out ] || sudo mkdir -p $out
   (cd $o ; echo $o)
done

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if this only show blank lines then the unzip is probably done on the original directory. (from where the commands are started)
Sorry for that.


And this should be the right code:

for i in $( find $PWD/base_folder ! -path '*/extracted*' -a -name '*.zip'   -print ) ; do
   out=$( dirname $i | sed 's/base_name/base_name\/extracted/' )
   [ -d $out ] || sudo mkdir -p $out
   (cd $out ; sudo unzip $i '*' -x '*.txt' '*.xls')
done

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Ok it worked! But one more thing I'm sorry, I didn't realize I example was incorrect.

How would I modify the code to have the contents of the zip extract to a folder named the same thing as the zip file (minus the extension)?

so:

base_folder/batch_1/batch_1_1.zip -> base_folder/extracted/batch_1/batch_1_1/file_1

It looks like it extracted the files to the folder the zip files were in and not the 'extracted' directory.

That was because $o was empty, cd without any path returns you to the login directory ($HOME) of an account.
or nowhere if that is empty as well (stays where you are).

Thank you noci. I was able to fix it by changing:

out=$( dirname $i)/$( basename $i .zip| sed 's/base_name/base_name\/extracted/' )

to:

out=$( dirname $i | sed 's/base_name/base_name\/extracted/')/$(basename $i .zip)