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.
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.
> >
>
>
