Re: Multiple 7zip extract
> Ok sorry, duh, you're already doing that :-)
> So write a 5-line script: Loop thru the fully qualified filenames; take the first part of each non-qualified filename using the shell's file matching operators, make a directory with that name under some parent directory,, then extract to it.
You're absolutely right, but I don't have time. :) I'll take care of
it during the week.
Thank you for your interest.
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 9:42 PM Nicholas Geovanis
<nickgeovanis@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 12:33 PM Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 11:44 AM Gokan Atmaca <linux.gokan@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hello
>>>
>>> > $ cd destination-directory-for-extracted-files
>>> > $ find top-directory-of-tree-containing-archive-files -type f -name \*7z -exec 7z e {} \;
>>>
>>> I'm already able to import into a single folder with the following. My
>>> problem is extracting 7z files, which are in thousands of folders with
>>> a size of close to 100GB, into their own directories.
>>> # find /home/z0/ob7z/ -name "*.7z" -type f| xargs -I {} 7z x -p*****
>>> -oextract7z {};
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>> You might need to use the xargs command in a pipe. It batches its arguments so you can handle command strings that exceed the shell's command buffer sizes.
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> Ok sorry, duh, you're already doing that :-)
> So write a 5-line script: Loop thru the fully qualified filenames; take the first part of each non-qualified filename using the shell's file matching operators, make a directory with that name under some parent directory,, then extract to it.
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> The hardest part will be remembering that you have to set the "+x" flag on the script's file if you want to start it directly :-)
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>>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 8:02 PM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> > 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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