How can I recursively extract zip files on Windows? Each zip file should be unzipped in a new subdirectory, and the zip file should be deleted afterwards.
Each existing or created directory should be scanned for further existing zip files, and so forth.
So the problem is, that I have a huge zip file, which contains many directories with perhaps many further zip files. The original zip files should simply be freed from any zip files, the originial directory tree should be kept, with the convention that each zip file should be represented as a own directory.
So the logic behind is: unzip file in a directory and delete zip file -> go into that directory and unzip all zip files there in the same way -> go into every exisiting subdirectory of the directory and do the same -> and so on recursively
Rough proposal for a recursively programmed batch script file:
unzip_folder(%%directory):
for %%file (%%directory/*.zip) do (unzip %%file | del %%file)
for /d %%directory (*) do ( call unzip_folder(%%directory) )
return
Best Answer
ExtractNow does this. See http://www.extractnow.com/Usage.aspx#process. Beware that Chrome and maybe other browsers flag the app as malware/spyware. The author maintains that this is just from the installer and points to a portable version for those who don't want the installer (although Chrome also calls that zip file malicious).