extract-zip
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Unzip written in pure JavaScript. Extracts a zip into a directory. Available as a library or a command line program.
Uses the yauzl
ZIP parser.
Make sure you have Node 10 or greater installed.
Get the library:
npm install extract-zip --save
Install the command line program:
npm install extract-zip -g
const extract = require('extract-zip')
async function main () {
try {
await extract(source, { dir: target })
console.log('Extraction complete')
} catch (err) {
// handle any errors
}
}
dir
(required) - the path to the directory where the extracted files are writtendefaultDirMode
- integer - Directory Mode (permissions), defaults to 0o755
defaultFileMode
- integer - File Mode (permissions), defaults to 0o644
onEntry
- function - if present, will be called with (entry, zipfile)
, entry is every entry from the zip file forwarded from the entry
event from yauzl. zipfile
is the yauzl
instanceDefault modes are only used if no permissions are set in the zip file.
extract-zip foo.zip <targetDirectory>
If not specified, targetDirectory
will default to process.cwd()
.
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unzip a zip file into a directory using 100% javascript
The npm package extract-zip receives a total of 13,241,159 weekly downloads. As such, extract-zip popularity was classified as popular.
We found that extract-zip demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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