For all zips, and unzip in working directory and maintains its structure With this command find . -name '*.zip' -exec unzip '{}' ';' we find all zip files under . (directory), then unzip them into the current working directory, **However,** the structure is gone. /backUp/pic1/1-1.zip /backUp/pic1/1-2.zip /backUp/pic2/2-1.zip /backUp/pic2/2-2.zip /backUp/pic3/3-1.zip /backUp/pic3/3-2.zip /backUp/pic3/3-3.zip Current command result: /new/1-1 /new/1-2 /new/2-1 /new/2-2 /new/3-1 /new/3-2 /new/3-3 desired result /new/pic1/1-1 /new/pic1/1-2 /new/pic2/2-1 /new/pic2/2-2 /new/pic3/3-1 /new/pic3/3-2 /new/pic3/3-3 Asked here, but the code doesn't work out What should dirname and basename be in this command?

You can use `find` with the `-execdir` argument instead of `-exec`.

`-execdir` will run the command in the directory it has found the files in, instead of your current working directory

Example:

`find . -name '*.zip' -execdir unzip {} \;`

While this is not exactly what you've asked for, you could add a few steps to get to the desired result:


mkdir new
cp -a backUP/* new/
#run unzip operation
cd new
find . -name '*.zip' -execdir unzip {} \;
#remove all .zip files
find . -name '*.zip' -exec rm {} \;