March 7th, 2015

PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Read the Content of a ZIP File

Doctor Scripto
Doctor Scripto
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Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to read the content of a .zip file.

Hey, Scripting Guy! Question How can I read the content of a .zip file from within Windows PowerShell?

 Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer Use the OpenRead static method from the IO.Compression.ZipFile .NET Framework class.
            First, you will need to load the assembly that contains the class. Here is an example:

Add-Type -assembly "system.io.compression.filesystem"

[io.compression.zipfile]::OpenRead("E:\Ch10.zip").Entries.Name

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