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How to Decompress Files from a ZIP file in Java
In previous article, we show you how to compress files to a zip file format. In this article we will show you how to unzip it. The example from this article uses try-with-resources Statement to auto close the resources and compiled and executed on jdk 8 and later.
- Read ZIP file with "ZipInputStream"
ZipInputStream zis = new ZipInputStream(new FileInputStream(zipFile))
- Get the files to "ZipEntry" and output it to "FileOutputStream"
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(newFile)
In this example, it will read a ZIP file from "C:\Project_Work\samples\dest_sample.zip", and decompress all zipped files to "C:\Project_Work\samples\outputzip" folder.
import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.List; import java.util.zip.ZipEntry; import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream; /** * This Java program demonstartes that how to decompress files from zip. * @author javaguides.net * */ public class DecompressZipExample { List<String> fileList; private static final String INPUT_ZIP_FILE = "C:\\Project_Work\\samples\\dest_sample.zip"; private static final String OUTPUT_FOLDER = "C:\\Project_Work\\samples\\outputzip"; public static void main(String[] args) { DecompressZipExample unZip = new DecompressZipExample(); unZip.unZipIt(INPUT_ZIP_FILE, OUTPUT_FOLDER); } /** * Unzip it * * @param zipFile * input zip file * @param output * zip file output folder */ public void unZipIt(String zipFile, String outputFolder) { byte[] buffer = new byte[1024]; File folder = new File(OUTPUT_FOLDER); if (!folder.exists()) { folder.mkdir(); } try (ZipInputStream zis = new ZipInputStream(new FileInputStream(zipFile))) { // get the zipped file list entry ZipEntry ze = zis.getNextEntry(); while (ze != null) { String fileName = ze.getName(); File newFile = new File(outputFolder + File.separator + fileName); System.out.println("file unzip : " + newFile.getAbsoluteFile()); // create all non exists folders // else you will hit FileNotFoundException for compressed folder new File(newFile.getParent()).mkdirs(); try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(newFile)) { int len; while ((len = zis.read(buffer)) > 0) { fos.write(buffer, 0, len); } } ze = zis.getNextEntry(); } zis.closeEntry(); zis.close(); System.out.println("Done"); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } }
Output:
file unzip : C:\Project_Work\samples\outputzip\sample.txt
file unzip : C:\Project_Work\samples\outputzip\sample1.txt
file unzip : C:\Project_Work\samples\outputzip\sample2.txt
Done
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/FileOutputStream.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/zip/ZipEntry.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/FileInputStream.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/index.html?java/util/zip/ZipOutputStream.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/tryResourceClose.html