I have found the Community Extensions to create zip and gzip files but I can not find anything to
read or extract files from an archive.

I have a large set of gz files that I need to expand to a new location, does anyone know of any
other scripts out there that I may have missed?

I did start looking at System.IO.Compression, but could not get anything to work in PS.

Many Thanks

Rob Kenny

Rob Kenny wrote:
> I have found the Community Extensions to create zip and gzip files but I
> can not find anything to read or extract files from an archive.
>
> I have a large set of gz files that I need to expand to a new location,
> does anyone know of any other scripts out there that I may have missed?
>
> I did start looking at System.IO.Compression, but could not get anything
> to work in PS.
>
A short google for: powershell gunzip
got me here:
<http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=7776>

HTH

--
Matthias
Tacke

Matthias Tacke wrote:
> Rob Kenny wrote:
>> I have found the Community Extensions to create zip and gzip files but
>> I can not find anything to read or extract files from an archive.
>>
>> I have a large set of gz files that I need to expand to a new
>> location, does anyone know of any other scripts out there that I may
>> have missed?
>>
>> I did start looking at System.IO.Compression, but could not get
>> anything to work in PS.
>>
> A short google for: powershell gunzip
> got me here:
> <http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=7776>
>
> HTH
>

I got there as well, it is proposed for the next version

Rob Kenny

On Jun 9, 11:57 am, Rob Kenny <r...@otherniceman.net> wrote:
> Matthias Tacke wrote:
> > Rob Kenny wrote:
> >> I have found the Community Extensions to create zip and gzip files but
> >> I can not find anything to read or extract files from an archive.
>
> >> I have a large set of gz files that I need to expand to a new
> >> location, does anyone know of any other scripts out there that I may
> >> have missed?
>
> >> I did start looking at System.IO.Compression, but could not get
> >> anything to work in PS.
>
> > A short google for: powershell gunzip
> > got me here:
> > <http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=7776>
>
> > HTH
>
> I got there as well, it is proposed for the next version
>
> Rob Kenny- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi,

As the person who wrote the 1.1 archive creation cmdlets, I'm also
writing the archive readers for 1.2; we didn't really have the time to
get full read/write ready, so I chose write abilities for 1.1; I
figured this would be more useful than read, especially for admins.

- Oisin

On Jun 9, 11:57 am, Rob Kenny <r...@otherniceman.net> wrote:
> Matthias Tacke wrote:
> > Rob Kenny wrote:
> >> I have found the Community Extensions to create zip and gzip files but
> >> I can not find anything to read or extract files from an archive.
>
> >> I have a large set of gz files that I need to expand to a new
> >> location, does anyone know of any other scripts out there that I may
> >> have missed?
>
> >> I did start looking at System.IO.Compression, but could not get
> >> anything to work in PS.
>
> > A short google for: powershell gunzip
> > got me here:
> > <http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=7776>
>
> > HTH
>
> I got there as well, it is proposed for the next version
>
> Rob Kenny- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

This capability is included in NetCmdlets: http://www.nsoftware.com/powershell/.

Lance
http://geekswithblogs.net/Lance/

> This capability is included in NetCmdlets:http://www.nsoftware.com/powershell/.

You know, I'm sorry, I suppose I could have been a bit more helpful an
actually posted an example, huh? Here you go:

1. To extract a gzip file into a specific output location:
read-zip C:\testing\test.gz -output C:\testing\output\ -format gzip

2. To extract a regular zip file (in this case the default -format is
used (zip)):
read-zip C:\testing\test.zip -output C:\testing\zipoutput\

jar and tar formats are also supported, and the write-zip cmdlet can
create self extracting archives too (-format zipsfx)

Lance
http://geekswithblogs.net/Lance/

On 11 Jun, 17:31, Lance <lmrob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This capability is included in NetCmdlets:http://www.nsoftware.com/powershell/.
>
> You know, I'm sorry, I suppose I could have been a bit more helpful an
> actually posted an example, huh? Here you go:
>
> 1. To extract a gzip file into a specific output location:
> read-zip C:\testing\test.gz -output C:\testing\output\ -format gzip
>
> 2. To extract a regular zip file (in this case the default -format is
> used (zip)):
> read-zip C:\testing\test.zip -output C:\testing\zipoutput\
>
> jar and tar formats are also supported, and the write-zip cmdlet can
> create self extracting archives too (-format zipsfx)
>
> Lancehttp://geekswithblogs.net/Lance/

Thanks

I had found the NetCmdlets as well, I know there is a trial version,
but I know that at the moment I won't be able to get authorisation for
a full copy so I feel bad able using the trial version for real one
off business use. Does that make me a strange person?