Download zip file, extract and run!

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(imported topic written by HDWest)

I am trying to do the following in Fixlet Debugger on a Windows 7 machine:

  1. Download a .zip file from the web, which includes an .msi installation file.
  2. Extract the archive
  3. Execute the .msi file

I cannot believe that IEM cannot unzip a file, but that seems to be the case. So I managed to download a unzip tool using:

// Get unzip
prefetch unzip-5.52.exe sha1:e1652b058195db3f5f754b7ab430652ae04a50b8 size:167936 
http://software.bigfix.com/download/redist/unzip-5.52.exe

I then have to download the archive:

prefetch myarchive.zip sha1:cce54da1b3943b3eef6856cd143abd55c2fa9e18 size:14647368 http://domain.com/myarchive.zip

The download location seems to be C:\Program Files\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client__Download. I can see each file in the folder while they are being prefetched, but they are removed as soon as each download has finished.

I then want to execute unzip-5.52.exe -o myarchive.zip -d “c:\somefolder”

Whatever I do, I cannot seem to run the unzip-5.52.exe

The log gives me:

Command started - wait cmd.exe /c "__Download\unzip.exe -o c:\sg\test\myarchive.zip -d c:\sg\test"
Command succeeded (Exit Code=1) wait cmd.exe /c "C:\__Download\unzip.exe -o c:\sg\test\myarchive.zip -d c:\sg\test"

The result is that nothing has been extracted. HELP PLEASE!!

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(imported comment written by martinc)

The first thing I see is the unzip.exe is being called, but you are downloading unzip-5.52.exe

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(imported comment written by jgstew)

See this example:

http://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/2609

"wait cmd.exe /c “__Download\unzip.exe” would not work because you need to send the absolute path to cmd.exe not the relative path.