unzip all files of folder (with error handling)

Question

I am trying to unzip all gz files in a certain folder. Now, I do this with a command "gunzip *.gz" in the folder. (very simple way!)

However, when an error occurs (such as, unexpected end of file), then the job is killed. I wanna just ignore such files with some problems, then continue to the next file.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

A simple script can skip the invalid files for you:

#!/bin/bash
for f in *.gz ; do
  gunzip "$f" &> /dev/null || echo "Skipping file $f"
done