Unzip archives from the command prompt (...or script)

[Giuseppe R.]

Hi to all,
problem: several hundreds of compressed files (.zip stored in a tree
structure under the file system) to be unzipped.
I would avoid to manually do the works, is it possible to invoke unzip tool
included in WinXp by command line?
If Yes, how?

I also could consider to turn to another sw (free) supporting that feature
Thanks in advance,
G.R.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

David Candy posted the basic script function over in windowsxp.general
several months ago

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set SrcFldr=objShell.NameSpace("c:\myzip.zip")
Set DestObj=objShell.NameSpace("c:\")
Set FldrItems=SrcFldr.Items
DestObj.CopyHere FldrItems, &H214

see:
CopyHere:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...shell/reference/objects/shell/application.asp


Creating a script to itterate through the argument of a set of dropped files
would be easy enough, but the exact syntax would depend on where you wanted
them put, etc.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

--drop_zips_on_me.js--cut here--
function GetDetails()
{ var objShell = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application");
var Ag = WScript.Arguments;
var objFolder = new Object;
for(j=0; j<Ag.length; j++)
{
objFolder = objShell.NameSpace(Ag(j));
if (objFolder != null)
{
var objFolderItems;
objFolderItems = objFolder.Items();
if (objFolderItems != null)
{
var objFolderItem;
var s ="";
for(i=0; i<objFolderItems.Count; i++)
{
objFolderItem = objFolderItems.Item(i);
s+=objFolderItem.Name + " ";
}
}
}
WScript.Echo(s);
}

}
GetDetails();
--cut here--
Highlight a few zips, and drop them on this to see the contents