Comments on: Caution filename not matched when unzipping multiple files

By: Jason McCreary

Jason McCreary — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:43:32 +0000

It’s always the little things. Thanks.

Fernando — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:20:39 +0000

Saved my day!
Thanks.

Sam — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:22:14 +0000

This is a good little command to have. I’ve run into many problems with zip files.

Amy — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 05:26:31 +0000

Finally a reason to why I have been getting this freaking message: “caution: filename not matched”. Thanks for a solution.

SEO LABS — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:45:03 +0000

Then it is better to use 7 ZIP for extraction…

Eric — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:22:21 +0000

how do you escape the * character?

Quora — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:20:40 +0000

What should I do if I get a “caution: filename not matched” error when trying to unzip multiple files at once in Terminal?…

Thanks for the softball question.

From: http://installingcats.com/2008/05/23/caution-filename-not-matched-unzipping-multiple-files/ :

unzip \*.zip

“Trying to run: “unzip *.zip” will cause the unzip program to take “first.zip” as the archive to pla…

Uncle Ben — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:57:03 +0000

Thanks! I always wondered why “unzip *.zip” didn’t work (as it would in a good ol’ dos box :-D). Cheers.

Shaun — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:00:52 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Helped me out on Snow Leopard.

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:53:20 +0000

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