Unzip Files?

[Shyke]

I was wondering how to get AutoIt to unzip files, could anyone help me out on this?

[themax90]

See this post:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17727

[Shyke]

Congradulations, you have confused the crap outta me with that topic!

Could anyone simplify it to what I need please?

[LxP]

Would FileInstall() suit your needs? Personally I would consider it a lot less mucking around.

[Shyke]

The file to unzip must be variable and is generally very large and gets downloaded from the internet.

[LxP]

Then in my opinion, it's easiest to bundle a small freeware unzipper within your compiled script, FileInstall() it to a temporary location and invoke that.

[Shyke]

How would that work?

[LxP]

Some of the information in the code below is fictitious for obvious reasons...

FileInstall('TheUnzipper.exe', @TempDir)
Local $Cmd = StringFormat('%s\TheUnzipper.exe -file "%s" -extract_to "%s"', @TempDir, @ScriptDir & '\TheZip.zip', @ProgramFilesDir & '\TheDestination')
; MsgBox(0, 'Debug', $Cmd)
RunWait($Cmd, '', @SW_HIDE)
FileDelete(@TempDir & '\TheUnzipper.exe')

[trids]

you can find some free zip/unzip commandline applets to automate from au3 here ..

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.inf.../infozip/WIN32/

HTH