How can I extract multiple 7z files in folder at once in Ubuntu?

Question

How can I extract about 900 7z files which are all located in the same folder (all have only one file inside) without doing it one by one?

I am using Ubuntu 10.10. All files are located in /home/username/folder1/folder2.

Answer 1

for arc in *.7z
do
  7zwhatever "$arc"
done

Answer 2

7za -y x "*.7z" 

The above code worked for me

Answer 3

for f in *.7z
do
    7zr e "$f" &
done

This will extract all .7z files if they're 7z format to the current directory, without waiting for completion.

Your computer could be owned. You have been warned!

Answer 4

Using parallel is rather convenient way with total progress meter for free ;)

ls *.7z | parallel -j+0 --eta '7z x {} >/dev/null'

Answer 5

7z x "*.7z" this worked for me in ubuntu

Answer 6

If you wish to extract multiple 7zip archives to folders with the same names in Linux, you can use:

for archive in *.7z; do 7z x -o"`basename \"$archive\" .7z`" "$archive"; done

For example, if you have two 7zip archives a.7z and b.7z, it will create two folders a and b, and uncompress a.7z into folder a and b.7z into folder b.

The above command comes from this answer on superuser by user Vojtech.

Answer 7

in adition to using a for loop

you can also use find in combination with the exec argument or xargs

Answer 8

The simplest way is unzip '*.zip'.

Make sure you have the ' marks.