I have a ZIP file in which there is a top directory where all the files are stored:
Release/ Release/file Release/subdirectory/file Release/subdirectory/file2 Release/subdirectory/file3 I want to extract everything under Release, preserving the directory structure, but when I run this:
unzip archive.zip Release/* -d /tmp
It creates the top Release folder:
/tmp/Release/ /tmp/Release/file /tmp/Release/subdirectory/file /tmp/Release/subdirectory/file2 /tmp/Release/subdirectory/file3 How I can extract everything inside Release without creating a Release folder, like this:
/tmp/ /tmp/file /tmp/subdirectory/file /tmp/subdirectory/file2 /tmp/subdirectory/file3 3 Answers
In your case, try in target folder:
ln -s Release . && unzip <YourArchive>.zip Than you need to remove the link you've created:
rm Release The j flag should prevent folder creation unzip -j archive.zip -d .
From the man page:
-j junk paths. The archive's directory structure is not recreated; all files are deposited in the extraction directory (by default, the current one). Python script for flattening extracted tree
The script written bellow extracts zip file and moves files contained within topmost directory out of it to the current working directory. This quick script is tailored to suit this particular question where there is one single topmost directory that contains all the files, although with a few edits can be made suitable for more general cases.
#!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys import os from zipfile import PyZipFile for zip_file in sys.argv[1:]: pzf = PyZipFile(zip_file) namelist=pzf.namelist() top_dir = namelist[0] pzf.extractall(members=namelist[1:]) for item in namelist[1:]: rename_args = [item,os.path.basename(item)] print(rename_args) os.rename(*rename_args) os.rmdir(top_dir) Test run
Here's an example of how the script is supposed to work. Everything extracted to current working directory, but source file can be in differet directory altogether. The test is performed on the zip archive of my personal github repository.
$ ls flatten_zip.py* master.zip $ ./flatten_zip.py master.zip ['utc-time-indicator-master/.gitignore', '.gitignore'] ['utc-time-indicator-master/LICENSE', 'LICENSE'] ['utc-time-indicator-master/utc-time-indicator', 'utc-time-indicator'] ['utc-time-indicator-master/utc_indicator.png', 'utc_indicator.png'] $ ls flatten_zip.py* LICENSE master.zip utc_indicator.png utc-time-indicator Test with source file being in different location
$ mkdir test_unzip $ cd test_unzip $ ../flatten_zip.py ../master.zip ['utc-time-indicator-master/.gitignore', '.gitignore'] ['utc-time-indicator-master/LICENSE', 'LICENSE'] ['utc-time-indicator-master/utc-time-indicator', 'utc-time-indicator'] ['utc-time-indicator-master/utc_indicator.png', 'utc_indicator.png'] $ ls LICENSE utc_indicator.png utc-time-indicator 
