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View Full Version : unzipping LOTS of zip files?


chuckt101
07-15-2001, 08:29 PM
Hi, I know this doesnt really have anything to do w/ webhosting, but i really need to get a program to unzip many zip files at once! Any suggestions/links? :)

THanks

WebSnail.net
07-15-2001, 08:33 PM
Would you believe that the best way to do this is use a DOS utility...

Pkzip... grab it from Tucows or somewhere like that and run it from the command line..

Just cd to the zip files directory then type something like

"pkzip -e *.zip"

You can check the extract command by just typing pkzip at the prompt and it'll list the possible extensions.

Hope that helps

Ericd
07-15-2001, 09:01 PM
Get WinRAR (http://www.rarsoft.com/), you can select all the zip files and extract them to a directory.

atwist
07-15-2001, 09:08 PM
i use Power Archiver and it works great.

kwimberl
07-15-2001, 10:37 PM
Norton came out with a utility a few years ago that does just that. I use it all the time. It's called Norton Unzip. I haven't upgraded it in years, so I can't remember what it cost. It was minimal if anything.

jtan15
07-16-2001, 02:11 AM
WebSnail.net's suggestion will work fine for Windows users. If you are doing this on a Unix machine, issuing a simple

unzip *.zip

will unzip every file named something.zip in the current directory. :)