Terminal Command

[novajunior]

I have these terminal commands that I normally run on a folder

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unzip \*.zip -d .
rm *.zip

I tried to put those into a shell script, however it fails to run. Any ideas on how I can run these commands in a folder?

It basically unzips the multiple zip packages into the current directory and removes the zips.

[a_freyer]

The short answer is to use the unarchive feature of Hazel, which does the exact same thing.

[sjk]

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unzip \*.zip -d .

Why are you quoting the '*' expansion character or is that just a typo here?

[novajunior]

I'm not quoting the *. I don't see like that?
Also the unarchive feature does not allow the files to be unzipped into the main directory. Meaning if the zip contains folders, it will not unzip the contents directly into the main folder.

[Mr_Noodle]

The script is not taking the argument into account ($1). Also, I recommend against using relative paths (the -d . part). You should use dirname to get the directory from $1 instead.

[sjk]

I'm not quoting the *. I don't see like that?

There's a backslash (\) quoting the *.

[a_freyer]

@sjk you mean escaping (thus OP's confusion), but that is not what the slash in OP's statement represents.

[novajunior]

Thanks for the help guys, I will try out something

[sjk]

@sjk you mean escaping (thus OP's confusion)

From the bash man page:

There are three quoting mechanisms: the escape character, single quotes, and double quotes.

So I meant using the backslash escape character as the quoting mechanism for the asterisk.

but that is not what the slash in OP's statement represents.

Then I'm confused about its purpose since the next command uses an unescaped/unquoted asterisk:

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rm *.zip

[a_freyer]

It's a directory tree character, not an escaping character in this context. It tells unzip to operate in the current directory. This is because unzip interprets *.zip as a wildcard even after escaping. The answer here is a bit complex because of the odd way unzip processes argv.

That said, 'quoting' is more confusing terminology than 'current directory', even though it may be technically correct (the best kind of correct).

Note the unzip man.

[sjk]

Got it, thanks! I'd forgotten about the internal wildcard handling of unzip, etc. commands that shell expansions can interfere with.

[novajunior]

Is there still a way I can do this? I'm not sure what to do anymore

[a_freyer]

What do you mean that it fails to run? Does the shell script shoot an error?

[novajunior]

I'm not sure how to go about writing the shell script. It fails to unzip my files.

[a_freyer]

That's not particularly descriptive of the issue that you're facing. Have you tried Mr_Noodle's suggestion of removing the relative path flag?