unzipping a file in cocoa

Question

I have a zipped file, which i want to extract the contents of it. What is the exact procedure that i should do to achieve it. Is there any framework to unzip the files in co

Answer 1

Here's a more concise version based on codingFriend1's approach

+ (void)unzip {
    NSString *targetFolder = @"/tmp/unzipped";
    NSString* zipPath = @"/path/to/my.zip";
    NSTask *task = [NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath:@"/usr/bin/unzip" arguments:@[@"-o", zipPath, @"-d", targetFolder]];
    [task waitUntilExit];
}

-d specifies the destination directory, which will be created by unzip if not existent

-o tells unzip to overwrite existing files (but not to deleted outdated files, so be aware)

There's no error checking and stuff, but it's an easy and quick solution.