How to Delete Multiple Files Inside Multiple Zip Files?

Question

Currently I am doing the following command to delete a file inside a zip file on my server:

zip -d file.zip .exe

But I have so many zip file that needs to delete all files with an .exe file extension.

All the zip files is stored under "downloads" folder.

Is it possible to delete files from multiple zip file?

Answer 1

Use find and xargs:

find -iname '*.zip' -print0|xargs -0 -i zip -d '{}' .exe

or to specify the directory explicitly:

find /downloads -iname '*.zip' -print0|xargs -0 -i zip -d '{}' .exe

EDIT: To exclude a specific directory, /downloads/admin:

find /downloads -path /downloads/admin -prune -o -iname '*.zip' -print0|xargs -0 -i zip -d '{}' .exe