In this post, we’ll show you how to use PowerShell to unzip files quickly and easily.
PowerShell is a powerful command-line tool that can help you perform a wide range of tasks, including extracting the contents of zip files.
The Expand-Archive cmdlet
PowerShell provides a built-in cmdlet called Expand-Archive that allows you to extract the contents of zip files. The Expand-Archive cmdlet is available in PowerShell 5.0 and later versions.
The Expand-Archive cmdlet takes two parameters:
-Path: specifies the path to the zip file that you want to extract.-DestinationPath: specifies the path to the directory where you want to extract the contents of the zip file.
For example, to extract the contents of a file named example.zip located in C:\temp\ to a directory named example located in C:\, you can use the following command:
Expand-Archive -Path "C:\temp\example.zip" -DestinationPath "C:\example"
By default, Expand-Archive will overwrite any existing files with the same name as files in the archive. If you want to skip overwriting files, you can use the -NoClobber parameter, like this:
Expand-Archive -Path "C:\temp\example.zip" -DestinationPath "C:\example" -NoClobber
This will extract the files in the zip archive to C:\example, but it will not overwrite any existing files.
You can also use the -Force parameter to force Expand-Archive to overwrite existing files, like this:
Expand-Archive -Path "C:\temp\example.zip" -DestinationPath "C:\example" -Force
This will extract the files in the zip archive to C:\example and overwrite any existing files with the same name.
Extract only specific files
If you want to extract only specific files from the archive, you can use the -Include parameter to specify a wildcard pattern that matches the names of the files you want to extract. For example, to extract only the files with a .txt extension, you can use the following command:
Expand-Archive -Path "C:\temp\example.zip" -DestinationPath "C:\example" -Include "*.txt"
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