one zip file, but certain files to different locations

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I’m trying to work out how i can achieve this.

I have one zip file that i want extract and 6 files go in one folder, a different 6 to another.

The files are the same name but change slightly per month as part of a release.

I’ll be using the below to unzip the files :

Add-Type -assembly "system.io.compression.filesystem"

[io.compression.zipfile]::ExtractToDirectory($Location, $destination)

But how can i move certain files to different locations ? Could i create an XML file ? Or create two hash tables and copy them to required locations ?

XML would be good, but not sure how to go about this.

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In a single unzip operation, you can’t send the files to different destinations. You have to unzip them first, and then move them to where you want them.

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OK, thanks Don.
Just for my own reference, could i set directory paths through XML and use powershell to look at the XML and do the copy ? I’m happy i could do this through splatting but interested by the learning the XML way.

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I’m not sure what “the XML way” even is :). I’m not aware of a command that can take an XML file as input to a file copy operation.

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OK Don. My Mistake, thought i could do this sort of thing with XML.
Thanks for your time.

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Is there something I’m missing? I mean, was there something somewhere you read along those lines? Just because I’m not aware doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, so if you’ve seen something I’d love to have a look!

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Sorry Don, no i’ve not seen anything. Just curious to know if it could be done. Thought it could be quite cool ! :slight_smile:

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Time for you to write a command that does :).

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Ha ha, Sounds like a challenge, i’ll crack on !