Unzip Multiple Files in Linux

Let us suppose that a folder, a “zip_files” folder in our case, contains multiple zipped files and we want to extract them simultaneously.

Here is how you can use the for loop to make the task simple:

$ for z in *.zip
do
  unzip $z;
done

OR

Here is how you can achieve the same task through one single command:

$ for z in *.zip; do unzip "$z"; done

 
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