All that work! <sigh>
One more time on the Z-Shell bandwagon...
#!/bin/zsh
mkdir /tmp/newstuff
cd /tmp/oldstuff
for a in **/*.zip ### recursive find of all zip files
do
mkdir -p "/tmp/newstuff/$a:h" ### build other dir structure
unzip -d "/tmp/newstuff/$a:h" "$a" ### unzip file into new dir
done
:h modifies any variable by removing the trailing pathname leaving the head.
Quotes preserve the spaces (or other funky characters).
Do the same thing with your tar and rar files.
Seems easier to me, but to each their own.
Gerry
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gerry