From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2007-09-29T17:41:50+09:00
Subject: Re: a lot of directories each with a .zip

On 9/29/07, Cameron Matheson <cameron.matheson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 I think this bash
> command should work:
>
> find . -name "*.zip" -type f -exec unzip -d /targetdir {} \;

I think the above is the best. Other way if you really want to use
grep and send the output to another command like unzip would be:

find . | grep "\.zip" | xargs unzip

Jesus.