Powershell Extracting Zip
When I Run This Command in a Normal Powershell Window It Works Fine: Add-Type -Assemblyname System. Io. Compression. Filesystem; [System. Io. Compression...
When I run this command in a normal PowerShell window it works fine:
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem; [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory("c:/program/compressed.zip","c:/program")
However when I run it as:
powershell Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem; [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory("c:/program/compressed.zip","c:/program")
or
cmd /c powershell Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem; [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory("c:/program/compressed.zip","c:/program")
I get this error:
At line:1 char:119
+ ... System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory(c:/program/compressed.z ...
~
You must provide a value expression following the '/' operator.
At line:1 char:119
+ ... System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory(c:/program/compressed.z ...
~
Missing ')' in method call.
At line:1 char:119
+ ... Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory(c:/program/compressed.zip,c:/progr ...
~~~~~~~~~~
Unexpected token 'compressed.zip' in expression or statement.
How can I make it work when adding PowerShell in front?
Thank you for your time.
1 Answer
Command Prompt (batch) processes the command and arguments first, so be careful with anything that could be interpreted as cmd symbols (double-quotes in your case), since cmd will remove them.
When running powershell commands, I prefer quoting the actual powershell part:
powershell.exe -Command "Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem; [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory('c:/program/compressed.zip','c:/program')"
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