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Robert Brax
Robert Brax

Reputation: 7318

unzip in current directory while preserving file structure

I'm in a directory and I have a zip containing files and directories. I need to unzip that file, into current directory, but preserving the file structure.

unzip myfile.zip will create a myfile directory in current directory which is not what I want.

unzip -j myfile.zip will kill all the file strucure, which is not what I want.

Upvotes: 36

Views: 87724

Answers (3)

roshan nikam
roshan nikam

Reputation: 21

Dont select the folder while zipping. For example myfile/abc.txt and myfile/efg.txt so while zipping select the files (abc.txt,efg.txt) and zip dont select the myfile folder to zip. So that when you unzip the file, the parent dir for each file or folder will be the directory in which you unzip.

Upvotes: 2

gile
gile

Reputation: 5976

unzip myfile.zip extracts files in the working directory by keeping path names from the zip file.

So if you get a subdirectory myfile it means it is part of the relative path of compressed files. Check it by listing the zip content

unzip -l myfile.zip

So you can unzip the file from the directory above, or, from the target directory unzip with -d option, where -d is the directory above

cd myfile
unzip myfile.zip -d ..

Upvotes: 40

london-deveoper
london-deveoper

Reputation: 543

The myfile directory was zipped into the zip file when it was created and looking at the unzip options there isn't a way to do this without adding additional steps.

If this entire process is under your control you should look at either creating the zip without using including the parent directory or you could use an alternative like tar (to create and extract) which allows you to extract content from the repo with greater precision.

Upvotes: 1

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