Trying to extract just .sql files from zip powershell

Question

I am trying to search thru a zip file and just extract all of the .sql files to a directory. I can make it extract all the files, but there are over 200 misc files in the z

Answer 1

I'd simplify it a little and use variables instead of the string literals, like this:

$shell = New-Object -COM 'Shell.Application'

$zipfile     = 'C:\Temp\some.zip'
$destination = 'C:\Project'

$zip = $shell.NameSpace($zipfile)

$zip.Items() | ? { $_.Path -like '*.sql' } | % {
  $shell.NameSpace($destination).CopyHere($_)
}

but other than that your code should do just fine.

Note, however, that it won't recurse into nested folders inside the zip file. You need something like this for processing nested folders as well:

function ExtractZip($fldr, $dst) {
  $fldr.Items() | ? { $_.Path -like '*.sql' } | % {
    $shell.NameSpace($dst).CopyHere($_)
  }
  $fldr.Items() | ? { $_.Type -eq 'File folder' } | % {
    ExtractZip $_.GetFolder $dst
  }
}

ExtractZip $shell.NameSpace($zipfile) $destination