How to unzip a file in Powershell?

Question

I have a .zip file and need to unpack its entire content using Powershell. I\'m doing this but it doesn\'t seem to work:

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Answer 1

In PowerShell v5.1 this is slightly different compared to v5. According to MS documentation, it has to have a -Path parameter to specify the archive file path.

Expand-Archive -Path Draft.Zip -DestinationPath C:\Reference

Or else, this can be an actual path:

Expand-Archive -Path c:\Download\Draft.Zip -DestinationPath C:\Reference

Expand-Archive Doc