Unzipping files into folders with the same name in Linux

Here is a little Python script that unzips files into folders with the same name in Linux. Take, for example, the file test.zip. If it contains a number of files and you unzip using unzip test.zip on Linux, then they will all be decompressed into your present working directory. If you wanted the files to go into a folder bearing the prefix of zip file, i.e. test, then you’d have to write a shell script…until now! Just because, I wrote a python script that does the same thing using unar. Now, unar can do this for one file but not for several, e.g. as defined using a wildcar *.zip. My script, called unzipr (because every Python script needs a fancy name), does just this. Please feel free to use and pass along if you find it helpful!

import sys
import os

filenames = sys.argv[1:]
for filename in filenames :
    os.system("unar -d {}".format(filename))

If you create an alias, i.e. add alias unzipr="python <path-to-unzipr>/unzipr.py" in your .bashrc, then you can unzip individual or multiple files seamlessly by executing unzipr *.zip on your command line. Happy zipping!