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Here’s a quick tip that will help you work with multiple zip files on the command line.

If you are in a folder and have three zip files in it (a.zip, b.zip, c.zip) that you want to unzip, “no problem,” you think, “I can take care of that with one command.” So, you quickly run the following:

However, rather than having the unzip program nicely unzip each file one after another, you receive the following:

I’m sure that this is not what you were expecting. I know I certainly wasn’t expecting this when I first tried it. However, this problem can help us understand more of how the command line works.
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