Let's assume I've a ZIP file whichs content may look like
# file: with_out_dir.zip
file1.txt
file2.cpp
file3.js
some_sub_dir/
- file_in_subdir.txt
file4.xml
but it may also look like this
# file: with_dir.zip
archive/
- file1.txt
- file2.cpp
- file3.js
- some_sub_dir/
-- file_in_subdir.txt
- file4.xml
and now I would have my bash script extract these files, but in any case it should to be extract to /var/sample/
so it will like this:
# expected output
/var/
- sample/
-- file1.txt
-- file2.cpp
-- file3.js
-- some_sub_dir/
--- file_in_subdir.txt
-- file4.xml
What's the best way todo that via a bash
script?
At the moment I am using unzip
to extract zip files, but I'm open for any other command line tool, if it would be easier using it.
Best Answer
I would suggest simply:
By the way, making an archive (tar, zip, whatever) without having all of the members of the archive inside of a subdirectory is EVIL. I don't know why people do it!