I want to find a command line code or bash script to unrar all the files in subfolder. This is can be easily done by:
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find Photos/ -name '*.rar' -execdir unrar e {} \;
However, this will output all unzipped files in current folder. Then I tried a script from here:
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#! /bin/sh
# ref: http://bashscripts.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=908
# ref : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/unrar-multiple-files-into-seprated-directory-base-on-their-name-927127/
echo "starting unrar in folders"
# for everything named *.rar
for filename in *.rar
do
foldername=$(basename "$filename" .rar)
echo $foldername
mkdir "$foldername"
cd "$foldername"
unrar x ../"$filename"
cd ..
done
echo "finished unrar in folders"
Note that
cddoesn’t simply work in bash script if you call it like./cdscript. Instead, you can do. ./cdscript. See here for details.
Then I found this approach also has limitations since in my subdirectories, all zip files have same name, and all files in zip files have same names. Something like:
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subdirA
- A.zip
- a.csv
- b.csv
- c.csv
- B.zip
- a.csv
- b.csv
- c.csv
subdirB
- A.zip
- a.csv
- b.csv
- c.csv
- B.zip
- a.csv
- b.csv
- c.csv
...
Then I modified the script without cd, then it works perfectly!
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#!/bin/bash
for filename in $( find . -name '*.rar' )
do
foldername=${filename%.*} # remove the rar suffix
mkdir "$foldername"
unrar e "$filename" "$foldername" # unrar to a specific folder
echo "------------分割线------------" # separating line
done