0

I have a situation where I need to be able to run a script and delete specific files within a zip archive. Below is the general setup

/mnt/directory /mnt/directory/Folder1 /mnt/directory/Folder1/file1.zip /mnt/directory/Folder1/file2.zip /mnt/directory/Folder2 /mnt/directory/Folder2/Documents /mnt/directory/Folder2/file1.zip /mnt/directory/Folder2/file2.zip

Then within each zip file, there are a lot of files and directories. There could be 20+ directories deep so I need to make sure whatever I do recursively looks into the files.

I have played with the zipinfo -1 /mnt/directory/Folder1/file1.zip '.txt'* command it finds all .txt files in file1.zip, but I can't wildcard the zipinfo command to make it search all zip files. Also, I still need to be able to delete them after the fact. I have also tested zip -d /mnt/directory/Folder1/file1.zip filename.txt. This works fine for 1 file and 1 file only, as long as it's not within a folder. So again, not ideal for my situation.

I can unzip them if needed, but would prefer not as some are very large and I will have to zip them back anyway.

Thanks.

Improve this question
5
  • use find. find /mnt/directory -name "*.zip" and pipe it to unzip. Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 18:50
  • I've tried "find /mnt/directory -name ".zip" | zipinfo -1 ".doc" and it doesn't work because it's not reading the zip files. Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 20:07
  • zipinfo do not accepts pipes. Try for i in $(find -iname ".zip"); do zipinfo $i;done Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 20:32
  • I got it workings with your recommendations above. This is my final output for the find command "find /mnt/directory/ -name "*.zip" -exec sh -c 'zipinfo -1 "{}" | grep -P "docx"' \;". Now my issue is I need to know what zip file the docx files come from. Currently it is just giving me the file names. Commented Apr 16, 2013 at 14:26
  • From my approach, i has the name of the zip file, so adding a echo $i should be enought. You can try find mnt/directory/ -name "*.zip" -exec sh -c 'zipinfo -1 "{}" | grep -P "docx"; echo "filename: " "{}"' Commented Apr 16, 2013 at 14:53

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
0

The module Archive::Zip looks like it will do what you need.

Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.