How to unzip a file using the command line

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Which commands can be used via the command line to unzip a file  Preferably something built into Windows or open source free tools

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As other have alluded  7-zip is great   Note  I am going to zip and then unzip a file   Unzip is at the bottom   My contribution   Get the  7-Zip Command Line Version  Current URL  http   www 7-zip org download html  The syntax   You can put the following into a  bat file   C  Program Files 7-Zip 7z exe  a MySuperCoolZipFile zip  C  MyFiles   jpg  -pmypassword -r -w C  MyFiles   -mem AES256   I ve shown a few options   -r is recursive   Usually what you want with zip functionality   a is for  archive    That s the name of the output zip file   -p is for a password  optional   -w is a the source directory   This will nest your files correctly in the zip file  without extra folder information   -mem is the encryption strength   There are others   But the above will get you running   NOTE   Adding a password will make the zip file unfriendly when it comes to viewing the file through Windows Explorer   The client may need their own copy of 7-zip  or winzip or other  to view the contents of the file   EDIT             just extra stuff    There is a  command line  version which is probably better suited for this  http   www 7-zip org download html   current  at time of writing  direct link  http   sourceforge net projects sevenzip files 7-Zip 9 20 7za920 zip download  So the zip command would be  with the command line version of the 7 zip tool     C  WhereIUnzippedCommandLineStuff 7za exe  a MySuperCoolZipFile zip  C  MyFiles   jpg  -pmypassword -r -w C  MyFiles   -mem AES256   Now the unzip portion   to unzip the file you just created    C  WhereIUnzippedCommandLineStuff 7zipCommandLine 7za exe  e MySuperCoolZipFile zip       -oC  SomeOtherFolder MyUnzippedFolder -pmypassword -y -r   As an alternative to the  e  argument  there is a x argument     e  Extract files from archive  without using directory names    x  eXtract files with full paths   Documentation here   http   sevenzip sourceforge jp chm cmdline commands extract htm

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7-Zip  it s open source  free and supports a wide range of formats   7z exe x myarchive zip

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Originally ZIP files were created with MS-DOS command line software from PKWare  the two programs were PKZIP EXE and PKUNZIP EXE  I think you can still download PKUNZIP at the PKWare site here   http   www pkware com software-pkzip dos-compression  The actual command line could look something like this   C   gt pkunzip c  myzipfile zip c  extracttothisfolder

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You could use    http   membrane com synapse library pkunzip html  or  7zip  http   www 7-zip org download html  Free byte zip  http   www freebyte com fbzip   or infozip  http   infozip sourceforge net

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Thanks Rich  I will take note of that  So here is the script for my own solution  It requires no third party unzip tools   Include the script below at the start of the batch file to create the function  and then to call the function  the command is    cscript  B j unzip vbs zip file name goes here zip  Here is the script to add to the top      REM Changing working folder back to current directory for Vista   7 compatibility   d0 CD   dp0 REM Folder changed  REM This script upzip s files           j unzip vbs ECHO          j unzip vbs ECHO   UnZip a file script        j unzip vbs ECHO          j unzip vbs ECHO   It s a mess  I know           j unzip vbs ECHO          j unzip vbs ECHO         j unzip vbs ECHO   Dim ArgObj  var1  var2        j unzip vbs ECHO Set ArgObj   WScript Arguments        j unzip vbs ECHO         j unzip vbs ECHO If  Wscript Arguments Count    0  Then        j unzip vbs ECHO  var1   ArgObj 0         j unzip vbs ECHO Else        j unzip vbs ECHO  var1             j unzip vbs ECHO End if        j unzip vbs ECHO         j unzip vbs ECHO If var1      then        j unzip vbs ECHO  strFileZIP    example zip         j unzip vbs ECHO Else        j unzip vbs ECHO  strFileZIP   var1        j unzip vbs ECHO End if        j unzip vbs ECHO         j unzip vbs ECHO  The location of the zip file         j unzip vbs ECHO REM Set WshShell   CreateObject  Wscript Shell          j unzip vbs ECHO REM CurDir   WshShell ExpandEnvironmentStrings    cd            j unzip vbs ECHO Dim sCurPath        j unzip vbs ECHO sCurPath   CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject   GetAbsolutePathName             j unzip vbs ECHO strZipFile   sCurPath           strFileZIP        j unzip vbs ECHO  The folder the contents should be extracted to         j unzip vbs ECHO outFolder   sCurPath               j unzip vbs ECHO         j unzip vbs ECHO  WScript Echo    Extracting file      strFileZIP         j unzip vbs ECHO         j unzip vbs ECHO Set objShell   CreateObject   Shell Application           j unzip vbs ECHO Set objSource   objShell NameSpace strZipFile  Items          j unzip vbs ECHO Set objTarget   objShell NameSpace outFolder         j unzip vbs ECHO intOptions   256        j unzip vbs ECHO objTarget CopyHere objSource  intOptions        j unzip vbs ECHO         j unzip vbs ECHO  WScript Echo    Extracted            j unzip vbs ECHO

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Grab an executable from info-zip      Info-ZIP supports hardware from microcomputers all the way up to Cray supercomputers  running on almost all versions of Unix  VMS  OS 2  Windows 9x NT etc   a k a  Win32   Windows 3 x  Windows CE  MS-DOS  AmigaDOS  Atari TOS  Acorn RISC OS  BeOS  Mac OS  SMS QDOS  MVS and OS 390 OE  VM CMS  FlexOS  Tandem NSK and Human68K  Japanese   There is also some  old  support for LynxOS  TOPS-20  AOS VS and Novell NLMs  Shared libraries  DLLs  are available for Unix  OS 2  Win32 and Win16  and graphical interfaces are available for Win32  Win16  WinCE and Mac OS

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There is an article on getting to the built-in Windows  ZIP file handling with VBscript here   https   www aspfree com c a Windows-Scripting Compressed-Folders-in-WSH    The last code blurb deals with extraction

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If you already have Java Development Kit on your PC and the bin directory is in your path  in most cases   you can use the command line  jar xf test zip  or if not in your path  C  Java jdk1 6 0 03 bin gt jar xf test zip  Complete set of options for the jar tool available here  Examples  Extract jar file     jar x v f jarfile  inputfiles   -Joption       jar x v   inputfiles   -Joption

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Copy the below code to a batch file and execute  Below requires Winzip to be installed accessible from your machine  Do change variables as per your need    ECHO OFF SET winzip path  C  Program Files WinZip  SET source path  C  Test  SET output path  C  Output   SET log file  C  Test unzip log txt  SET file name    zip   cd  source path  echo Executing for  source path   gt   log file   FOR  f  tokens      G IN   dir  file name   b   DO   echo Processing     G echo File Name     G  gt  gt   log file   winzip path  WINZIP32 EXE -e   G  output path     PAUSE

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Firstly  write an unzip utility using vbscript to trigger the native unzip functionality in Windows  Then pipe out the script from within your batch file and then call it  Then it s as good as stand alone  I ve done it in the past for numerous tasks  This way it does not require need of third party applications  just the one batch file that does everything   I put an example on my blog on how to unzip a file using a batch file     j unzip vbs     UnZip a file script     By Justin Godden 2010     It s a mess  I know         Dim ArgObj  var1  var2 Set ArgObj   WScript Arguments  If  Wscript Arguments Count  gt  0  Then  var1   ArgObj 0  Else  var1      End if  If var1      then  strFileZIP    example zip  Else  strFileZIP   var1 End if   The location of the zip file  REM Set WshShell   CreateObject  Wscript Shell   REM CurDir   WshShell ExpandEnvironmentStrings    cd     Dim sCurPath sCurPath   CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject   GetAbsolutePathName      strZipFile   sCurPath  amp       amp  strFileZIP  The folder the contents should be extracted to  outFolder   sCurPath  amp        WScript Echo    Extracting file    amp  strFileZIP   Set objShell   CreateObject   Shell Application    Set objSource   objShell NameSpace strZipFile  Items   Set objTarget   objShell NameSpace outFolder  intOptions   256 objTarget CopyHere objSource  intOptions   WScript Echo    Extracted        This bit is for testing purposes REM Dim MyVar REM MyVar   MsgBox   strZipFile  65   MsgBox Example    Use it like this   cscript   B j unzip vbs zip file name goes here zip

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