Lew, et al -- ...and then Lew Wolfgang said... % % Hi Folks, Good morning! % ... % named with a long date-time group with the .zip extension, as in % % Fri-Apr-30-185859-PDT-2021-logfile.zip % % Alas, they all unpack to the same filename: logfile [snip] It depends on how much time you want to take. The ZIP file name appaers to be perfect* for each file, so you could either serialize it for F in *-logfile.zip do unzip $F && mv logfile `basename $F .zip` || break done or whip up a little script like #!/bin/sh set -e [ -f $1 ] B=`basename $1 .zip` mkdir $B.dir cd $B.dir unzip ../$B mv logfile ../$B cd .. rmdir $B.dir and parallelize parallel /path/to/script ::: *-logfile.zip it all. [If my parallel-fu were stronger, I'd whip out a parallel blah blah blah ::: *-logfile.zip one-liner that does it all, but ... not there yet :-] * Well, unique, at least ... Why don't people use ISO format when they embed the date in a file name? Lord knows that sorting by day of the week isn't very useful ... HTH & HANW :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt