Does Windows 7 come with a native uncompress (unzip) command-line tool?
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Saturday, April 10, 2010 8:01 PM
Hi
Does Windows 7 come with a native uncompress (unzip) tool that can be run from the command-line?
I am looking for native uncompress solution so that users do not have to either provide a third-party Unzip tool or for me having to create a self-extraction file.
Thanks
Jeff in Seattle
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Saturday, April 10, 2010 10:18 PMI'm not aware of a command line option to unzip files. The normal way would be to right-click on the compressed file (note: only *.zip format is supported) and select "extract all", following the instructions then. If you want more flexibility, you must use 7zip or something like that (WinRAR, f.e.). The native solution is somewhat restricted, probably by licensing issues.
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Monday, April 12, 2010 8:25 AM
Hi,
According to my search, if you want to unzip file using command line, additional software maybe needed. Here are more information:
http://stahlworks.com/dev/index.php?tool=zipunzip
http://www.memecode.com/docs/winzip.html
Hope it helps.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 2:35 PM
The stahlwordk unzip seems to be built for 1999 zip files and doesn't work with a zip file I just created with windows 7, do you have a pointer to a working tool?
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 3:42 PM
There's a way to unzip with explorer in vbscript, but I've just started using 7-zip:
Keep 7z.exe and 7z.dll together.
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Monday, August 22, 2011 10:24 AM
There's a way to unzip with explorer in vbscript, but I've just started using 7-zip:
Keep 7z.exe and 7z.dll together.
Well...what is the command? You only told half the story. And doing 7z.exe just says invalid command line.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:15 PM
OK so an update, on the 7-zip download page (http://7-zip.org/download.html) they have a specific command line version (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7za920.zip). It does not even contain a 7z.dll so I presume the poster above was jerry rigging the normal install version. The zip file contains 7za.exe and 7-zip.chm. The help files seems broken to me so I found the switches online, but I only could find them on a japanese website, but it is english:
Syntax: http://sevenzip.sourceforge.jp/chm/cmdline/syntax.htm
commands: http://sevenzip.sourceforge.jp/chm/cmdline/commands/index.htm
Extract with full paths: http://sevenzip.sourceforge.jp/chm/cmdline/commands/extract_full.htmFrom the site:
Examples
7za.exe x archive.zip
extracts all files from the archive archive.zip to the current directory.
7za.exe x archive.zip -oc:\soft *.cpp -r
extracts all *.cpp files from the archive archive.zip to c:\soft folder.
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Monday, August 29, 2011 4:59 PM
go here:
download the unzip.exe
store it wherever you like, i put mine in the program files folder, but anywhere is fine
add its path to your enviroment variables
then you can cd to your zipfile in command line and type "unzip yourzipfile.zip"
it will unzip in the current directory.
and it's free.
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012 10:12 PM
did you ever get a way to do with natively with windows. I have the same issue only it's not windows 7 it is windows 2003 server. I DO NOT have permission to install any kind of unzip utility on this server but I have an automated process that needs to unzip a file on a regular basis and the paperwork process to get permission to install winzip or other utility that can be called from command line will take weeks- if such a feature exists built in it would make a world of difference.
anyone know what command might possibly work to use the windows explorer extract feature via command line????
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Wednesday, December 05, 2012 1:00 PM
I did not. However, I am using the 7za.exe available from 7-zip. It is just an executable and does not need to be installed, so maybe that will get you around your software installation issues. http://www.7-zip.org/download.html I believe it is the command line version named "7-Zip Command Line Version".
I use it and there is nothing installed. Hope it helps.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:43 PM
If you have JAVA installed on the machine you are working on, you can try this --
"%java_home%\bin\jar" xf name_of_file.zip
where %java_home% is the install location for the jdk . eg : C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18
Just remember that it doesn't create a folder/directory under which it unzips the files. It just dumps all the extracted files in your present working directory.
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