extract many zip files but set different destination directories following the content file extensions with unzip cmd

Khaled

11/13/23, 2:48 PM

I have many .zip files, each file contains many different file with different extensions, e.g: .c, .py, .java and .cpp etc.

I am only interesting to extract all file with .py or .java from these zip files. I am using this command unzip -d myDestinationFolder/ "Na*.zip" "*.py" "*.java"

It unzips my wanted files with specific extensions to the directory myDestinationDirectory.

Is there a way to mkdir automatically following the wanted file types then unzips them to the corresponding directory?

So all .py files are extracted to a directory called py, .java to another directory called java etc.

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unzip

Sadaharu Wakisaka

11/14/23, 1:01 AM

`unzip archive-name "*.py" -d dist-name`

Khaled

11/14/23, 8:58 PM

I wann a to extract not only one filetype but many at once

Sadaharu Wakisaka

11/15/23, 1:02 AM

Unix/Linux philosophy is to do the simple thing without mistakes. You can do this which you prefer. #1 extract everything sort after, #2 extract only sorted files. `unzip archive-name "*.py" -d dist-name1 && unzip archive-name "*.java" -d dist-name2` I like this simplicity. You can also do #1 method, `find -name ...` but I assume they are the same thing.

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