John ran the command, and it worked like magic! All zip files in the subfolders were unzipped into their respective directories. He verified the results and sent a triumphant email to Alex:
Subject: Unzipping success!
After some more research, John discovered the perfect one-liner: unzip all files in subfolders linux
find . -type f -name "*.zip" This command found all files with the .zip extension in the current directory and its subdirectories. John then piped the output to xargs , which would execute unzip for each file found:
find . -type f -name "*.zip" -print | xargs -I {} unzip {} But wait, there's a better way! John recalled that unzip has a -d option to specify the output directory. He wanted to unzip all files into their respective subfolders, without mixing files from different subfolders. John ran the command, and it worked like magic
Dear Alex,
tree The output showed a complex directory structure with many subfolders, each containing multiple zip files. After some more research, John discovered the perfect
Alex was thrilled to see the unzipped files and thanked John for his help. From that day on, John was known as the "unzip master" among his colleagues.