Ubuntu – way “extract and delete zip file” in a single command

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Is there a way (preferrable via GUI, but may be via command line) to extract a zip file and delete the zip after extracted, all in a single command?

(I remember I saw someone doing something like this in the command line one day)

Best Answer

For a GUI I'd say the easiest way is a nautilus script. The main line of which would be:

unzip "$item" && trash "$item"

It works in bash/dash just as easy. In nautilus the whole thing would look like this:

unzip delete nautilus script

#!/bin/bash
# Nautilus script to unzip and then remove a zip archive.
# Nautilus script usually go in "$HOME/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts"

IFS='
'
for item in $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS; do
    if [ -n "$(file -b "$item" | grep -o 'Zip')" ]; then
        unzip "$item" && trash "$item"
        # use trash instead of rm to move them to trash
        # (trash-cli package installed)
    fi
done
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