extract multiple files with password

Question

I have about 200 files that i zipped long time a go in win. they are zipped with different extensions (zip, 7zip, rar,...) but the password to extract them is the same.

How do I extract all the files by inputting the password only once?

Solution

The method to extract 1 file would be:

unzip -P password file

This is used to mark several files with different extensions: *.{zip,7zip,rar}

So I would start with ...

unzip -P password *.{zip,7zip,rar}

Mind though that this could error out on any of the files not being correct (damaged) or with the wrong password. Also: this is -insecure-: the password is typed in plain sight and someone checking the process list is also capable of seeing it. If that is a concern you should leave the "password" part and type it when asked.

No idea if it will ask for it every time though so you need to confirm this ;)

Comments

[davidbaumann]

Use find with -exec.

[simple mind]

how do i do that?

[simple mind]

not working, getting errors "caution: filename not matched". What should i do?

[Hi-Angel]

You missed the part of sentence after the word …zipped… ☺

[Nimesha Buddhika Peiris]

default unzip, as to Ubuntu 16.04, does not support extracting multiple files. Use something like for zf in *.zip; do unzip -P *** $zf -d dstdir/; done.

[Nimesha Buddhika Peiris]

Note: -d is recommended when extracting multiple files to avoid mixing extracted files with original archives.