Unzip file
Description
The Unzip file action unzips one or more files to a specified target location.
Options
General tab
Action name
The name of the workflow action.
Source files
Get args from previous
check this option if you want to use the list of result files (from a previous workflow action) as the list of files to unzip.
Zip file name
the name of the zip file or a folder if you want to use a wildcard.
Source wildcard
If the previous option is a folder, you can enter a regular expression. wildcard here.
For example: to match /folder/test.zip a regex of te.\.zip will come up empty.
Use .*te.\.zip instead to account for the folders ahead of it.
For Windows file paths, the direction of the slashes will be reversed in the match, so use \/ instead of \\.
Unzipped files
Use zipfile name as root directory
check this if you want to create a separate directory for each zip filename (same name as file)
Target directory
The target directory to unzip in
Create folder
Check this if you want to create the target folder
Include wildcard
Use this regular expression to select the files in the zip archives to extract
Exclude wildcard
Use this regular expression to select the files in the zip archives to extract
Include date in filename
Include the current date in the unzipped filenames (format yyyyMMdd)
Include time in filename
Include the time (format HHmmss)
Specify the date time format yourself
Allows you to specify the date time format yourself (default is: yyyyMMdd'_'HHmmss)
If files exists
Select the action to take if the target (unzipped) file exists: skip, overwrite, etc.
After extraction
select the action to take after zip file extraction:
Do nothing,
Delete files
Move files
Move files to
If the previous option is "Move files", you can select the target directory here.
Advanced tab
Result file name
Add extracted file to result
Add the extracted file names to the list of result files of this workflow action for use in the next workflow actions.
Success condition
Success on
Allows you to specify the success factor of this workflow action:
All works fine (default)
At least we successfully unzipped x files
Nr errors less than
Limit files
The number of files unzipped or number of errors, depending on the option chosen for Success on above.
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