Extract contents from a zip file using PowerShell.

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#    NAME : Extract-Zip
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#    AUTHOR : Wessel van Sandwijk
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#    Website : http://www.useful-it.nl
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#    COMMENT : Extract contents from a ZipFile
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#    VERSION HISTORY :
#    1.0  07-MRT-2013  -  Initial Version
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Extract-Zip c:\demo\myzip.zip c:\demo\destination

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#    FUNCTIONS
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function Extract-Zip
{
    param([string]$zipfilename, [string] $destination)
    if(test-path($zipfilename))
    {
        $shellApplication = new-object -com shell.application
        $zipPackage = $shellApplication.NameSpace($zipfilename)
        $destinationFolder = $shellApplication.NameSpace($destination)
        $destinationFolder.CopyHere($zipPackage.Items())
    }
}

About The Author

Wessel van Sandwijk

I am a DevOps Engineer from the Netherlands.
My Skills are mainly PowerShell, Ansible, Choco, Automation, Active Directory, VMWare, Hyper-V and Security.

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