From: Cameron Matheson <cameron.matheson@...>
Date: 2007-09-29T16:02:19+09:00
Subject: Re: a lot of directories each with a .zip

Hi,

On 9/28/07, Simon Schuster <significants@gmail.com> wrote:
> I could go about this a bunch of different ways. my lame bash skills
> came up with:
>
> ls -R | grep "zip" | unzip -d /targetdir , which didn't work (I get
> confused with the pipes and the input and the whatnot.)
>
> but that's okay, I'd rather just do it all inside ruby. so, I got the
> rubyzip gem, but am not finding any examples on how to use it (and I'm
> still confused about how to read the documentation) but rubyzip + rio
> seems like how I'll go about it, since I'm using rio in other areas
> already.
>
> any help on either doing it all in ruby, or the simple bash command
> I'm failing to execute, would be helpful :) thank you much!

I don't know anything about the ruby module, but I think this bash
command should work:

find . -name "*.zip" -type f -exec unzip -d /targetdir {} \;

Cameron