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Re: Multiple 7zip extract



On Sun 16 Jan 2022 at 18:59:49 (+0300), Gokan Atmaca wrote:
> 
> I have hundreds of 7z compressed files in different folders. I want to
> open them. Every extracted file must be in the same directory. How can
> we do this?

$ cd destination-directory-for-extracted-files
$ find top-directory-of-tree-containing-archive-files -type f -name \*7z -exec 7z e {} \;

If the archives are not in one tree, but dispersed, you can specify
multiple directories between "find" and "-type".

Cheers,
David.


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