> Ok sorry, duh, you're already doing that :-) > So write a 5-line script: Loop thru the fully qualified filenames; take the > first part of each non-qualified filename using the shell's file matching > operators, make a directory with that name under some parent directory,, then > extract to it.
You're absolutely right, but I don't have time. :) I'll take care of it during the week. Thank you for your interest. On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 9:42 PM Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 12:33 PM Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 11:44 AM Gokan Atmaca <linux.go...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> > $ cd destination-directory-for-extracted-files >>> > $ find top-directory-of-tree-containing-archive-files -type f -name \*7z >>> > -exec 7z e {} \; >>> >>> I'm already able to import into a single folder with the following. My >>> problem is extracting 7z files, which are in thousands of folders with >>> a size of close to 100GB, into their own directories. >>> # find /home/z0/ob7z/ -name "*.7z" -type f| xargs -I {} 7z x -p***** >>> -oextract7z {}; >> >> >> You might need to use the xargs command in a pipe. It batches its arguments >> so you can handle command strings that exceed the shell's command buffer >> sizes. > > > Ok sorry, duh, you're already doing that :-) > So write a 5-line script: Loop thru the fully qualified filenames; take the > first part of each non-qualified filename using the shell's file matching > operators, make a directory with that name under some parent directory,, then > extract to it. > > The hardest part will be remembering that you have to set the "+x" flag on > the script's file if you want to start it directly :-) > >>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 8:02 PM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > On Sun 16 Jan 2022 at 18:59:49 (+0300), Gokan Atmaca wrote: >>> > > >>> > > I have hundreds of 7z compressed files in different folders. I want to >>> > > open them. Every extracted file must be in the same directory. How can >>> > > we do this? >>> > >>> > $ cd destination-directory-for-extracted-files >>> > $ find top-directory-of-tree-containing-archive-files -type f -name \*7z >>> > -exec 7z e {} \; >>> > >>> > If the archives are not in one tree, but dispersed, you can specify >>> > multiple directories between "find" and "-type". >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > David. >>> > >>>