How to unzip a file using the cmd?

Question

I want to make a BAT file that will ZIP or UNZIP a file. For zipping a file, I have found this question: Can you zip a file from the command prompt using ONLY Windows' built-in capability to zip files?

The answers given there are great and working for me, but I couldn't find any information about how to unzip the files. Like in the link, I can't assume any third-party tools (except winRAR).

Thanks ahead and sorry for English mistakes

Answer 1

This batch file code will help you to unzip a file.

@echo off
setlocal
cd /d %~dp0
Call :UnZipFile "C:\Temp\" "c:\FolderName\batch.zip"
exit /b

:UnZipFile <ExtractTo> <newzipfile>
set vbs="%temp%\_.vbs"
if exist %vbs% del /f /q %vbs%
>%vbs%  echo Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>>%vbs% echo If NOT fso.FolderExists(%1) Then
>>%vbs% echo fso.CreateFolder(%1)
>>%vbs% echo End If
>>%vbs% echo set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
>>%vbs% echo set FilesInZip=objShell.NameSpace(%2).items
>>%vbs% echo objShell.NameSpace(%1).CopyHere(FilesInZip)
>>%vbs% echo Set fso = Nothing
>>%vbs% echo Set objShell = Nothing
cscript //nologo %vbs%
if exist %vbs% del /f /q %vbs%

N.B. C:\Temp is folder where it stores the Extracted (UnZip) File.

And, c:\FolderName\batch.zip is source path, (where Zip files are stored).

Please, Change the Full File Path ( Drive, Folder & Zip file name), according to your need.

Answer 2

On Windows 10 build 17063 or later you can use tar.exe (similar to the *nix one). This is also available in the nanoserver docker container

C:\> tar -xf archive.zip

Note: zip support is not well documented

ref: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdtar&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-stable

Answer 3

If you have Windows 10, you can use the much shorter Powershell equivalent

Expand-Archive -Force C:\path\to\archive.zip C:\where\to\extract\to

Answer 4

If you have Windows 10 (and powershell), but still want to unzip from within .bat/.cmd-file (cmd.exe), you can use

powershell -command "Expand-Archive -Force '%~dp0my_zip_file.zip' '%~dp0'"

where my_zip_file.zip is the file to be unzipped and %~dp0 points to the same folder are where the .bat/.cmd-file is (Change the folder, if needed).

Answer 5

ZipFile="C:\Users\spvaidya\Music\folder.zip"
ExtractTo="C:\Users\spvaidya\Music\"




'If the extraction location does not exist create it.

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

If NOT fso.FolderExists(ExtractTo) Then



 fso.CreateFolder(ExtractTo)

End If

'Extract the contants of the zip file.

set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")

set FilesInZip=objShell.NameSpace(ZipFile).items

objShell.NameSpace(ExtractTo).CopyHere(FilesInZip)

Set fso = Nothing
Set objShell = Nothing

The following vbscript can be saved as file.vbs and then run using batch script like:

file.vbs

save this in .bat file and run it.

Answer 6

I use this one-liner to extract all zip files in the current path to their own subdirectory based on their file name:

gci -Recurse -Filter *.zip |ForEach-Object {Expand-Archive -Path $_.Fullname -DestinationPath $_.BaseName -Force}

Answer 7

To unzip all files in the current directory in one command, using Powershell:

Get-ChildItem *.zip | Expand-Archive -DestinationPath .\Extracted -Force