Compressed files questionFollow

So I have a folder, inside said folder is a few hundred other folders, inside those may be other folders...some of those folders have zip files in them that need to be unzipped, in place.

Anyone know of a way to search the original folder, drill down, unzip the files that are found and perhaps remove the original zipped file. Without 30 hours of searching?

you mean, like the find feature in winrar?

Oh my god, there is too...


move along, nothing to see here.

Categories of ****, duh. Tonight's menu : #s, and abused through Asian, possibly asshole if he speeds through.

Edited, Jul 15th 2010 11:16pm by Tarub

The Mandelbrot set ******* a unicorn with Gabriel's horn? Gross, Allegory. Real gross.

Owww, my non-euclidean eyes.

Friends don't do that to friends, Allegory.

TrueCrypt, if it's really nasty.

Or call your folder something like "The Effects of Changing Patent Law on Pin Manufacturing, 1903 - 1978" and set the folder image to a pin or something.

If you were running a real operating system, you'd just run something like this in the directory:

find . -name \*.zip -exec unzip {} \;

Profit!

Ah. So a horde of files stored on a local NTFS partition? Hopefully, not mission critical data... ;)

On a related note (well, file compression related anyway), ran into an oldie-but-goodie from the "strange problems" department. AE calls up. He's having issues with a tar.gz file he transferred over from a vendor (he's a vendor consultant, so technically from his own site, but whatever). He gunzips the file, but when he tries to untar it, it gives him a checksum error. He's tried multiple copies and can't figure out what's going on. My spidey sense starts tingling cause I know I've run into this before. But what could it be!?

I copy the file. Gunzip it. Untar it. Same checksum error (always have to check for pebkac). Remember what problem likely is. Run file on the tar file and it says it's a gzip compressed file! Lol... Someone gzipped it twice (and renamed it in between). Gotta love that. Rename .tar to .tar.gz. Gunzip again. Untar. Heavens part and music plays. I'll have to remember to add this one to my list of interview problems. Lots of people seem to forget (or don't know) that while unix style OSes don't care about file extensions natively, many of the tools (especially compression tools) are braindead if the extensions don't match what they expect. It's quite possible to ***** yourself renaming files and it's *not* a mistake if the file extension reads something like .tar.Z.gz.gz. It's stupid to have ever created such a monstrosity and someone should be shot, but you'll really ***** yourself over renaming it to clean up the extra long name.