Unzipping a lot of files

[Nocturnal]

What is the easiest way to do this? I'm downloading fonts, and I will end up having about 500+ zip files with one font each. Any ideas on how to get them to all unzip into one folder so I can install them all at once?

 

[Sir Fredrick]

get a command line unzipper like pkzip, and then just remember that wildcards are your friend.

 

[SyahM]

winace will do the job.

 

[Nocturnal]

Thanks. Sir Fredrick... what do you mean wild cards are my friend? Elaborate, please.

 

[prodigy]

pkunzip *.*

 

[peto]

I find winace quite good for unzipping multiple files simultaneously *cough* warez *cough*

 

[Nocturnal]

does winace unzip all the files into one folder?

 

[Sir Fredrick]

<< pkunzip *.* >>



prodigy has it. * is a wildcard in DOS (or cmd console), it means everything, basically. so *.* means everything that has a . in it. *.zip would be all files in a given directory that end in the .zip extension.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

<< winace will do the job. >>

You have to be very careful with WinAce. If you're not paying attention to the install process, it will take LOTS of file extensions, if not most of them.

nik

 

[dc]

winzip 8.1

 

[saltedeggman]

<< does winace unzip all the files into one folder? >>



just do this, extract one file into a desired folder first.....using winzip

then extract the rest of the files, it will extract to the folder you first extract as default

 

[Nocturnal]

like i said, there is 500+ files. i dont want to unzip 500 one by one. that's why i asked if there was any other solution, thanks.

 

[Nocturnal]

how do i go about using winace? im having a hard time. i highlighted all files and tried that, but that doesnt seem to work.

any and all help is appreciated, thanks.

 

[dc]

winzip 8.1

select files, right click, winzip, extract to...