Question

I am new to powershell and looking to list all the files, contained in zip files in a directory. I don’t want to use any third-party tool.

Structure of the directory is
mydir > dir
a.zip
b.zip
c.zip

with each file containing files named 1.txt or 2.txt or 3.txt

I am trying to get an output in the form

a.zip:1.txt
a.zip:2.txt
b.zip:files\3.txt
b.zip:4.txt
c.zip:1.txt
d.zip:10.txt 

and so on.

Unfortunately my environment is not 4.5 but 4.0.
I was able to write up this code but it still needs a lot of parsing for clean up as unzip gives a lot of extra information.

$packagedir="C:\Packages"
$unzipcmd = "c:\bins\unzip.exe -l"
$unmatchstr = "*Archive*"
pushd .
cd $packagedir

$filelist= Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName

 foreach ($item in $filelist) 
 {$ziplist = Invoke-Expression "$unzipcmd $item"; 
 foreach ($item2 in $ziplist) 
  {
   if ($item2.Contains("Archive") )
   {

   }
   else
   {
     echo $item "::" $item2}} 
   }
popd

Is there any easier way to parse this. There is a lot of extra information in the unzip -l output, like Column headers, separators and dates and other date before every file name.

Answer 1

In .NET Framework 4.5 there is a ZipFile class that is quite handy.
To list the entries in an archive file, you can use it like this in Powershell:

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('System.IO.Compression.FileSystem')
[IO.Compression.ZipFile]::OpenRead($sourceFile).Entries

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Update: This seems to do the trick :]

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('System.IO.Compression.FileSystem')

foreach($sourceFile in (Get-ChildItem -filter '*.zip'))
{
    [IO.Compression.ZipFile]::OpenRead($sourceFile.FullName).Entries.FullName |
        %{ "$sourcefile`:$_" }
}