If your zip files contain files with identical names (e.g., data.txt inside multiple zips), unzip will ask you what to do for every single file. To automate this:
find . -name "*.zip" -type f -exec unzip -P 'secret' {} -d {}.dir \; unzip all files in subfolders linux
What if some of those ZIP files themselves contain other ZIP files? The command above only extracts one level. To recursively extract until no ZIPs remain, use a loop: If your zip files contain files with identical names (e
Imagine you downloaded a course bundle: ~/Downloads/course/ with subfolders week1/data.zip , week2/slides.zip , week3/exercises.zip . You want to extract each into its respective folder without overwriting existing files. data.txt inside multiple zips)