unzip two different kind of file extensions

Question

Note here, .zip and .jar is just an example, my file extensions are different. Suppose I have a directory which can contain number of zip files

a.zip b.zip c.zip

AND/OR

z.jar x.jar y.jar

along with other contents.

I want to unzip them all.

I tried

unzip -q *.zip

and

unzip -q *.jar

But when the folder does not contain .jar files, the second command would fail

unzip:  cannot find or open *.jar, *.jar.zip or *.jar.ZIP.

No zipfiles found.

This is problematic for me as it an error my script would exit. I want to silently unzip the *.zip and *.jar without errors. Is there anyway to accomplish this?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use nullglob in bash:

$ shopt -s nullglob
$ tee foo.zip bar.zip </dev/null
$ echo *.zip *.jar
bar.zip foo.zip

The nullglob option changes the behaviour of a non-matching glob from becoming a literal string to being removed entirely.

However, this will likely not suffice in your particular use case, as unzip won't know what to do if it is passed no arguments. You should check if there are zips/jars to unzip first, like so:

shopt -s nullglob
zips=( *.zip )
jars=( *.jar )
(( "${#zips[@]}" )) && unzip -q "${zips[@]}"
(( "${#jars[@]}" )) && unzip -q "${jars[@]}"

Or all at once (if applicable):

shopt -s nullglob
zipsandjars=( *.zip *.jar )
(( "${#zipsandjars[@]}" )) && unzip -q "${zipsandjars[@]}"

In POSIX shell something similar can also be done like so:

for file in *.zip *.jar; do
    if [ "$file" != "*.zip" ] && [ "$file" != "*.jar" ]; then
        unzip -q "$file"
    fi
done