zip files need to be unzipped through cron

[Abhijit P.]

Dear all,

I am using a Red Hat Linux Server in which I am getting soem files from the remote locations through ftp in zipped format. Now the files which I am getiing goes in diff directories. I want to unzip these files through cron so that Manually i don't need to browse through each directory and unzip it.
The problem is when I run unzip * command it doesn't run I have to manually unzip one by one file. So I can't put it in cron.

Please help me out to solve this ..

Thanks and regards,
Abhijit

[Gopi Sekar]

I believe you are simply putting 'unzip *' in your crontab, it will not work since cron does not understand the current directory. you may have to put it like 'unzip /path/to/zip/folder/*.zip'

[Gopi Sekar]

forgot to ask you, what is your crontab entry look like? because cron also supports wild cards and i am not sure whether this is affecting you.

Gopi

[renarios]

Hi Abhijit,

Try this:
#!/bin/sh
# Search through a directory and unzip all files
DIR="dir_to_search"

find ${DIR} -name '*.zip" -exec gunzip {} \;

To extract the files use -d option.

Cheers,

Renarios

[renarios · Accepted solution]

Sorry, made a mistype:

#!/usr/bin/sh
# Search through a directory and unzip all files
DIR="dir_to_search"

find ${DIR} -name '*.zip' -exec gunzip {} \;

#EOT

Save this file as /root/gunzipper.sh

Put an entry in the crontab like:

# minute hour monthday month weekday command
0 0 * * * /root/gunzipper.sh

[Steven E. Protter]

Remember, cron jobs have no environment.

If you want your job to be able to run unzip or zip without the full path, set the PATH variable before running any commands.

SEP

[Ivan Ferreira]

The find solution is good, but I think that gzip cannot decompress .zip files. You should use the unzip command.

[Abhijit P.]

Dear Renarios,

Thanks for the script it worked

thank you very much
Regards,
Abhijit

[Abhijit P.]

found solution to the problem
thanks