{"id":7421,"date":"2015-03-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/03\/07\/powertip-use-powershell-to-read-the-content-of-a-zip-file\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:22","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-read-the-content-of-a-zip-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-read-the-content-of-a-zip-file\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Read the Content of a ZIP File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to read the content of a .zip file.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I read the content of a .zip file from within Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/> Use the&nbsp;<b>OpenRead<\/b>&nbsp;static method from the IO.Compression.ZipFile .NET Framework class. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; First, you will need to load the assembly that contains the class. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Add-Type -assembly &quot;system.io.compression.filesystem&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">[io.compression.zipfile]::OpenRead(&quot;E:\\Ch10.zip&quot;).Entries.Name<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to read the content of a .zip file. &nbsp;How can I read the content of a .zip file from within Windows PowerShell? &nbsp; Use the&nbsp;OpenRead&nbsp;static method from the IO.Compression.ZipFile .NET Framework class. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; First, you will need to load the assembly that contains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to read the content of a .zip file. &nbsp;How can I read the content of a .zip file from within Windows PowerShell? &nbsp; Use the&nbsp;OpenRead&nbsp;static method from the IO.Compression.ZipFile .NET Framework class. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; First, you will need to load the assembly that contains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}