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How to mimick the 7zip "extract to "."" context menu option from Windows

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I'm pretty new at using the terminal and was wondering how to place a folder full of .zip files into sub folders named the same as the .zip file it was extracted from.

So far I figured that unzip '*.zip' -d will extract all the .zip files into a single directory, but I'm not sure how to point/create destination folders for the -d for each .zip file.

Alternatively, the Nautilus Action Config Tool seems like if might be able to mimic the 7zip Extract To command, but this seems a bit more daunting.

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answered 2 Years ago istictroubli · Accepted Answer

Using the Nautilus Action Config Tool option and calling my script zippy.sh:

#!/bin/bash

# Unzipping and organizing files from nautilus

m=0 # counter

while [ -n "$1" ] && [ -f "$1" ]

do

    if [[ "$1" =~ .zip$ ]]

    then

        dir="$1"

        dir=${dir%.*}

        unzip "$1" -d "$dir"

        m=$(($m + 1))

        shift

    fi

done

zenity --info --text="Operations finished and "$m" zip files unzipped"

exit 0

Place script here:
```
~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/
```

Make it executable with chmod +x ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/zippy.sh

Explained:

-n and -f check file number is not zero and is file respectively

=~ .zip$ make sure it's a zip file

${dir%.*} cut off the zip part of filename

m=$(($m + 1)) count how many zip files are worked on.

shift flip through files

zenity display a message box to indicate operations conclusion