win_unzip – Unzips compressed files and archives on the Windows node

Synopsis

• Unzips compressed files and archives.

• Supports .zip files natively.

• Supports other formats supported by the Powershell Community Extensions (PSCX) module (basically everything 7zip supports).

• For non-Windows targets, use the unarchive module instead.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• PSCX

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
creates path		If this file or directory exists the specified src will not be extracted.
delete_archive boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Remove the zip file, after unzipping. aliases: rm
dest path / required		Destination of zip file (provide absolute path of directory). If it does not exist, the directory will be created.
recurse boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Recursively expand zipped files within the src file. Setting to a value of yes requires the PSCX module to be installed.
src path / required		File to be unzipped (provide absolute path).

Notes

Note

• This module is not really idempotent, it will extract the archive every time, and report a change.

• For extracting any compression types other than .zip, the PowerShellCommunityExtensions (PSCX) Module is required. This module (in conjunction with PSCX) has the ability to recursively unzip files within the src zip file provided and also functionality for many other compression types. If the destination directory does not exist, it will be created before unzipping the file. Specifying rm parameter will force removal of the src file after extraction.

See Also

See also

unarchive – Unpacks an archive after (optionally) copying it from the local machine

The official documentation on the unarchive module.

Examples

# This unzips a library that was downloaded with win_get_url, and removes the file after extraction
# $ ansible -i hosts -m win_unzip -a "src=C:\LibraryToUnzip.zip dest=C:\Lib remove=yes" all

- name: Unzip a bz2 (BZip) file
  win_unzip:
    src: C:\Users\Phil\Logs.bz2
    dest: C:\Users\Phil\OldLogs
    creates: C:\Users\Phil\OldLogs

- name: Unzip gz log
  win_unzip:
    src: C:\Logs\application-error-logs.gz
    dest: C:\ExtractedLogs\application-error-logs

# Unzip .zip file, recursively decompresses the contained .gz files and removes all unneeded compressed files after completion.
- name: Unzip ApplicationLogs.zip and decompress all GZipped log files
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
    - name: Recursively decompress GZ files in ApplicationLogs.zip
      win_unzip:
        src: C:\Downloads\ApplicationLogs.zip
        dest: C:\Application\Logs
        recurse: yes
        delete_archive: yes

- name: Install PSCX
  win_psmodule:
    name: Pscx
    state: present

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
dest string	always	The provided destination path Sample: C:\ExtractedLogs\application-error-logs
removed boolean	always	Whether the module did remove any files during task run Sample: True
src string	always	The provided source path Sample: C:\Logs\application-error-logs.gz

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Phil Schwartz (@schwartzmx)

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