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Hello everyone. I would like to make a batch file that extracts the contents of MANY .zip files (<name>001-146) to a certain folder, without having to manually extract them. My .bat skills are not good enough to do it and it would be a usuful tool that i currently need. Can someone please post the batch code that will do this.
many thanks in advance.
many thanks in advance.
Hello,
The older DOS PKUNZIP might work for you. I wonder if WinZip has something like that available too.
I wonder if you could instead of getting a bunch of .ZIP files, if your source could send you ONE zip file with everything inside it.
You cannot just go PKUNZIP *.ZIP as your files would be placed in the working folder and be mingling with your .ZIP files too. That would be bad.
Good luck on this one.
The older DOS PKUNZIP might work for you. I wonder if WinZip has something like that available too.
I wonder if you could instead of getting a bunch of .ZIP files, if your source could send you ONE zip file with everything inside it.
You cannot just go PKUNZIP *.ZIP as your files would be placed in the working folder and be mingling with your .ZIP files too. That would be bad.
Good luck on this one.
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thx for tryin, winzip cant do it and i am NOT prepared to do it myself
does anyone know how to do it?
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Can you extract them from the command line how you want? If not, the rest of the post won't be very useful.
To get a file listing of all the zip files in a directory, use:
dir *.zip /b > names.txt
your batch file may go something like this (stick with me, I'm used to Linux)
Oh, and one more note: I use binary numbers for temporary directory names just so I can practice binary.
mkdir 00000000
cd 00000000
unzip ../filename.zip
cd ..
mkdir 00000001
cd 00000001
unzip ../filename2.zip
cd ..
and so on...
To get a file listing of all the zip files in a directory, use:
dir *.zip /b > names.txt
your batch file may go something like this (stick with me, I'm used to Linux)
Oh, and one more note: I use binary numbers for temporary directory names just so I can practice binary.
mkdir 00000000
cd 00000000
unzip ../filename.zip
cd ..
mkdir 00000001
cd 00000001
unzip ../filename2.zip
cd ..
and so on...
Last edited by Puckdropper; Jul 22nd, 2004 at 4:03 am. Reason: Clarity
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cool man, thx. Ive got the list of files, now, i cant the extract to work. i have
"unzip /<filename><no.>.zip
but no good. is it something to do with those numbers (i dont really get them)
"unzip /<filename><no.>.zip
but no good. is it something to do with those numbers (i dont really get them)
Hey marceta. Have you considered that some of those zip archives might contain files with the same filename? Extracting all the archives into the one directory as a 'batch' operation might not be the wisest thing to do. You might just end up with some files lost from the exercise 
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well it took about 30mins, but i did it all by hand, i guess i should feel proud, but i dont
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Go and celebrate by having a nice cold can of root beer. I find Barqs is best Ice Cold. ;-)
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