I have a
.zip
$shell = New-Object -ComObject shell.application
$zip = $shell.NameSpace("C:\a.zip")
MkDir("C:\a")
foreach ($item in $zip.items()) {
$shell.Namespace("C:\a").CopyHere($item)
}
C:\a
Here is a simple way using ExtractToDirectory from System.IO.Compression.ZipFile:
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
function Unzip
{
param([string]$zipfile, [string]$outpath)
[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory($zipfile, $outpath)
}
Unzip "C:\a.zip" "C:\a"
Note that if the target folder doesn't exist, ExtractToDirectory will create it.