Remove Zip Files

Question

Hi guys,
I've got a function that extracts a zip file and then extracts two zip files within the newly created folder.
$shell_app = New-Object -com shell.application
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -filter *.zip -recurse
$fileString = $files.toString()
$zipName = $fileString.Replace(".zip","")
$directory = $path + "\" + $zipName
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $directory
foreach($file in $files)
$zip_file = $shell_app.namespace($file.FullName)
$copyHere = $shell_app.namespace($directory)
$$copyHere.CopyHere($zip_file.items())
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $directory -filter *.zip -recurse
foreach($file in $files)
$innerDir = $directory + "\" + $file.name
$zipName = $innerDir.Replace(".zip","")
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $zipName
$zip_file = $shell_app.namespace($file.FullName)
$copyHere = $shell_app.namespace($zipName)
$copyHere.CopyHere($zip_file.items())
This works fine. What I want to do is delete all the .zip files after they have been extracted. I've tried removing the them via the "Remove-Item -Path $path -filter *.zip -recurse" at the end of the function, but it seems to come in too early
and removes them before the files have finished being extracted.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hello
KarneeKarnay,
Could you test this and let me know if it worked?
Add-Type -AN System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
$zip = [IO.Compression.ZipFile]::OpenRead("c:\users\User1\desktop\tmp.zip") #my temp zip
$zip.Entries.Count #count inside zip
$files = Get-ChildItem C:\Users\User1\Desktop\tmp
$files.Count #count inside zip
may be a while loop? or could be called separately in a different ps1.?
Regards,
V
Venu