How to unzip folder and change directory to extracted folder

Question

I'm trying to make a script where I can unzip a file and then cd into that unzipped file (ie. unzip test.zip and then cd into the test folder). The problem is that the name of the zip file varies and I'm trying to write a script that will work regardless of the name.

Currently, I have:

for file in $(ls *.zip);
do
        unzip ${file}
        cd ${file};
done

but I'm getting an error because ${file} is still a .zip file (if I understand the error correctly).

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Edit:To clarify, I'm trying to do analysis on the files that are inside the .zip file. So I think my goal is to unzip the file first (which will then create a directory with the same name as the zip file without the .zip) and then cd into that directory. Once inside that directory, then I would have another line of code that would start the analysis of the files.

Answer 1

Assuming that i) the zip file creates a new directory and ii) the name of that directory is the same as the name of the zip file without the .zip extension (note that both of these assumptions will very often be wrong), then you can do:

for file in *.zip
do
    unzip -- "$file"
    cd -- "${file%%zip}"
done

The ${file%%zip}, or more generally the syntax ${variable%%pattern} will return the value of $variable with pattern removed. So ${file%%zip} will return foo if the file's name is foo.zip.

The -- are there to signify the end of options, which can be useful if you can have file names starting with -. Also note how there is no need to use ls at all, which is a very good thing since parsing the output of ls is very fragile and never recommended.

You can make this a little bit more sophisticated by making sure the directory exists first:

for file in *.zip
do
    unzip -- "$file"
    [ -d "${file%%zip}" ] && cd -- "${file%%zip}"
done

Note that this is only useful if you now want to do things in the script that run in the directory. Otherwise, if you expect to run this and have your current shell session now be in the target dir, that won't happen because the cd don't affects the shell running the script which is not the shell you launched the script from.

So if you want this to be a way for you to extract the file, move to the new directory and then do things in an interactive shell session, you need to make this a function and not a script:

unzipcd(){
    for file in *.zip
    do
        unzip -- "$file"
        [ -d "${file%%zip}" ] && cd -- "${file%%zip}"
    done
}