unzip and maintain directory structure of archives

Question

On fedora-13, I tried using:

unzip -j [nameof.zip]

but this doesn't seem to maintain the folder structure of the original archive. I REALLY need to maintain this structure because the archive is a backup of all my m4a's which are being converted to mp3. If I just convert it as is, then i'll just have a single massive directory full of mp3's, but they won't be in their respective "artist" folder.

Solution 1

You want to invoke unzip without the -j.

Solution 2

If you want to maintain the directory structure then you really need to drop the flag that tells unzip to junk the paths.

Comments

[Guillermo Siliceo Trueba]

I don't want to be downvoted for this, because the solution sounds trolly, what you need to do is: man unzip it will show you the flag you need, good luck.