How can I run unzip silently in terminal?

Question

I have a lot of Zip archives that I want to unpack in a script. Is there any way to run them silently?

Here is what I have:

bash> unzip  02b852e3571e46f25fdfc79f43ceb726ddff9ba7.zip 
Archive:  02b852e3571e46f25fdfc79f43ceb726ddff9ba7.zip
02b852e3571e46f25fdfc79f43ceb726ddff9ba7
  inflating: .editorconfig           
  inflating: .gitattributes      
bash>

Here is what I want:

bash> unzip <something to silence zip> MyArchive.zip      
bash>

man unzip is your friend (works for more or less all commands you can run in Terminal) — nohillside, Mar 28 '17 at 05:48
I know about man but I believe most people will agree it is difficult to find what you want looking through man pages. I think it was faster and easier to ask here. — Whitecat, Mar 30 '17 at 16:07
It takes some time tontet used to it, but things like command line options are easy to be found there. — nohillside, Mar 30 '17 at 18:37
Asking here is a lot more effort than using man command. But googling and jumping to the best answer after this has been asked is easier than using man. So bless this guy for asking. — Ben Barkay, Jun 08 '19 at 20:17

score 114 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '17 at 05:02

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As stated in the manual, -q (quiet) or -qq (even quieter).

unzip -qq filename

answered Mar 28 '17 at 05:02

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A link to the manual with a quote of the relevant part would be great – Sagiv b.g Aug 27 '23 at 08:02

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 19 '20 at 18:47

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If you don’t want to see the output from your terminal commands then you can redirect both standard output and standard error to /dev/null by adding > /dev/null 2>&1 to the end of your command. Of course, this can hide errors, so you might want to redirect it to a file instead, depending on your use case.

edited Feb 19 '20 at 18:47

Jivan Pal

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answered Mar 28 '17 at 04:26

Aaron Paul

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How can I run unzip silently in terminal?

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