Recursively unzip files and then delete original file, leaving unzipped files in place from shell

have you tried:

find . -depth -name '*.zip' -exec /usr/bin/unzip -n {} \; -exec rm {} \;

or

find . -depth -name '*.zip' -exec /usr/bin/unzip -n {} \; -delete

or running a second find after the unzip one

find . -depth -name '*.zip' -exec rm {} \;   

thx for the 2nd command with -delete! helped me a lot..just 2 (maybe helpful) remarks from my side:

-had to use '.zip' instead of `.zip` on my debian system

-use -execdir instead of -exec > this will extract each zip file within its current folder, otherwise you end up with all extracted content in the dir you invoked the find cmd.

find . -depth -name '*.zip' -execdir /usr/bin/unzip -n {} \; -delete

THX & Regards,Nord

As mentioned above, this should work.

find . -depth -name '*.zip' -execdir unzip -n {} \; -delete

However, note two things:

• The -n option instructs unzip to not overwrite existing files. You may not know if the zip files differ from the similarly named target files. Even so, the -delete will remove the zip file.
• If unzip can't unzip the file--say because of an error--it might still delete it. The command will certainly remove it if -exec rm {} \; is used in place of -delete.

A safer solution might be to move the files following the unzip to a separate directory that you can trash when you're sure you have extracted all the files successfully.