How can I extract multiple 7z files in folder at once in Ubuntu?

Question

How can I extract about 900 7z files which are all located in the same folder (all have only one file inside) without doing it one by one?

I am using Ubuntu 10.10. All files are located in /home/username/folder1/folder2.

score 48 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '16 at 11:54

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7za -y x "*.7z"

The above code worked for me

answered Sep 07 '16 at 11:54

Santosh Pillai

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Quotes were the needed component I was missing. It didn't want to work without them. – Artem Russakovskii Aug 29 '22 at 18:08
On Fedora 38 I had to comment out the asterisk, `\*.7z` – user598527 Jun 03 '23 at 12:18

score 20 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 25 '10 at 03:46

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for arc in *.7z
do
  7zwhatever "$arc"
done

answered Nov 25 '10 at 03:46

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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score 11 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 21 '13 at 10:09

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Using parallel is rather convenient way with total progress meter for free ;)

ls *.7z | parallel -j+0 --eta '7z x {} >/dev/null'

answered Jul 21 '13 at 10:09

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score 8 · Answer 4 · answered May 17 '18 at 16:55

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7z x "*.7z" this worked for me in ubuntu

answered May 17 '18 at 16:55

pzyxian

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Maybe you explain a little bit more what this line does, for example by citing the manpage. This may help other users with the same issue to better understand **how** this solves the problem. – Jankapunkt May 17 '18 at 20:14
Practically the same as [the current top answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/39369247/6404709) (posted in 2016), only doesn't have the `-y` flag (confirm all). Has Ubuntu had a package supplying the `7z` command? – user598527 Jun 03 '23 at 12:21

score 7 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 25 '10 at 03:59

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for f in *.7z
do
    7zr e "$f" &
done

This will extract all .7z files if they're 7z format to the current directory, without waiting for completion.

Your computer could be owned. You have been warned!

answered Nov 25 '10 at 03:59

Matt Joiner

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If you have 900 files then yeah, that will be pain. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Nov 25 '10 at 04:03

Franck Dernoncourt · Answer 6 · 2019-08-14T05:33:59.903

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If you wish to extract multiple 7zip archives to folders with the same names in Linux, you can use:

for archive in *.7z; do 7z x -o"`basename \"$archive\" .7z`" "$archive"; done

For example, if you have two 7zip archives a.7z and b.7z, it will create two folders a and b, and uncompress a.7z into folder a and b.7z into folder b.

The above command comes from this answer on superuser by user Vojtech.

edited Aug 14 '19 at 05:33

answered Jun 04 '18 at 01:36

Franck Dernoncourt

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score 5 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 23 '20 at 01:39

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You do not need to overcomplicate things. To extract a 7-Zip archive split to multiply parts use the following command:

7z x archive.7zip.0

7-Zip will notice you that you have a multi-volume archive and it unpacks everything.

answered Mar 23 '20 at 01:39

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this worked great. also I used `7z x archive.7zip.00*` and it put back together the two .001 and .002 files. – james-see Mar 21 '22 at 01:31

score 5 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 22 '20 at 05:11

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Probably the simplest approach is below

 ls | xargs -n1 7z x

answered Dec 22 '20 at 05:11

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 25 '10 at 03:48

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in adition to using a for loop

you can also use find in combination with the exec argument or xargs

answered Nov 25 '10 at 03:48

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Jul 20 '23 at 06:24

Another example with -aos parameter.

# ls Environment-voice-20180629-20180705-20230706024500.zip Environment-voice-20180729-20180802-20230706050000.zip | xargs -n1 7za x -aos '-xr!/http*'

7-Zip (a) [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=C.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,16 CPUs Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8272CL CPU @ 2.60GHz (50657),ASM,AES-NI)

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 2928050140 bytes (2793 MiB)

Extracting archive: Environment-voice-20180629-20180705-20230706024500.zip
--
Path = Environment-voice-20180629-20180705-20230706024500.zip
Type = zip
Physical Size = 2928050140
64-bit = +

Everything is Ok

Files: 631108
Size:       2664870996
Compressed: 2928050140

7-Zip (a) [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=C.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,16 CPUs Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8272CL CPU @ 2.60GHz (50657),ASM,AES-NI)

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 2387436055 bytes (2277 MiB)

Extracting archive: Environment-voice-20180729-20180802-20230706050000.zip
--
Path = Environment-voice-20180729-20180802-20230706050000.zip
Type = zip
Physical Size = 2387436055
64-bit = +

Everything is Ok

Files: 505001
Size:       2177832150
Compressed: 2387436055

score -2 · Answer 11 · edited Feb 03 '12 at 19:53

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The simplest way is unzip '*.zip'.

Make sure you have the ' marks.

edited Feb 03 '12 at 19:53

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answered Feb 03 '12 at 19:10

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How can I extract multiple 7z files in folder at once in Ubuntu?

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