On Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 12:33 PM Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Ok sorry, duh, you're already doing that :-)
So write a 5-line script: Loop thru the fully qualified filenames; take the
first part of each non-qualified filename using the shell's file matching
operators, make a directory with that name under some parent directory,,
then extract to it.
The hardest part will be remembering that you have to set the "+x" flag on
the script's file if you want to start it directly :-)
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.
>> >
>>
>>
