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You've explained the situation very well. The final piece to the puzzle is that unzip can handle wildcards itself:
http://www.info-zip.org/mans/unzip.html
ARGUMENTS
file[.zip]
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Wildcard expressions are similar to those supported in commonly used Unix shells (sh, ksh, csh) a...
And now I can say I learned how to one-box a link! Thanks, Wildcard!
and thank you, HNQ and Twitter for the wild ride on such an innocent answer.