LKBEN11523: Unzip a file with powershell


Symptom

You need to copy the contents of a zip file to another location

Cause

Needed for automation

Solution

To copy and extract a zip file to a directory, you can use the Expand-Archive command.

Here we copy the contents of the OpenJDK file into a directory:

$targetDir = "C:\program files\OpenJDK"
Expand-Archive '.\openjdk-16.0.2_windows-x64_bin.zip' -DestinationPath $targetDir

Have fun.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

Latest update: 21.09.2021 | Comment: