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Automatic unzipping of files in different folders

by Oct 9, 2014 4:24AM PDT

Hello all, I have several thousand folders, each with a single rar file in it. I need to know if there's some free program out there I can use to automate the unzipping of all these files into each of their respective folders.

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It can't know your requirements
by Forum moderator Oct 9, 2014 4:56AM PDT

But let's say the name of the zip is zap.zip. Just for fun. Now one could write a script to create a zap folder then unzip it there. I think an imaginative script writer could do that in one line of script which explains why an app or software may not be out there.

So that brings up my question. If an operation might get done with a single line of script, must it be an app?
Bob

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In other words
by Alpheus411 Oct 14, 2014 4:39AM PDT

I need to find a Python with a Lisp & give it Perls.

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Oh the humor.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 14, 2014 4:52AM PDT
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